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		lisper on March 28, 2013 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Judge Says Mathematical Algorithms Can’t Be Patent... Thanks. But this is still perplexing: Surely, Linux just uses IEEE754 floating point, which predates this patent by 15 years?

pavanky on March 28, 2013 [–]

You would be surprised by the sheer number of idiotic patents out in the wild.

sthu11182 on March 28, 2013 | [–]

a good sample - http://patently-useless.tumblr.com/

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