11 Oct
2006
11 Oct
'06
1:30 p.m.
Chuck Guzis wrote:
On 10/11/2006 at 1:57 PM woodelf wrote:
Check here. This was not the orginal link I thought of.
All I know is with IBM they seem to have invented this
packing algorithom most likely patented for hardware.
http://www2.hursley.ibm.com/decimal/
No it is the way you pack the data.
I can see how manipulating the data (and the circuitry involved therein)
might be a basis for a patent, but how can one legitimately patent a
representation of a number? How many of the required 100 states out of 128
possible would have to overlap before I'm sued for infringement? Am I
infringing more if I use Gray code, XS3, biquinary, or LFSR states to
represent my 100 states?
Cheers,
Chuck