Patents

[Walter Alden Tackett]

>	In fact, I have recently patented the usual algorithm for
>	multiplication of numbers in any base, 	I am now in the process of
>       patenting algorithms for addition, subtraction and division

>	Luis B. Almeida

....Sorry pal: these algorithms are previously published in the 
public domain, e.g., elementary school texts and the like, for the past
couple of hundred years.  And even if you did patent them, we connectionists
would just get bootleg copies published in mainland China. ;-)
-wt