Patents

[Luis B. Almeida]

I am sorry, but I am strongly in favor of the right to patent
algorithms. In fact, I have recently patented the usual algorithm for
multiplication of numbers in any base, including binary (you may not
believe it, but it had not yet been patented). I am expecting to earn
large sums of money, especially from computer and calculator
manufacturers, and also from neural network people, who are said to be
very fond of sums of products. I wouldn't like this large income to
simply disappear.

I am now in the process of patenting algorithms for addition,
subtraction and division, and I already have an idea of a square root
algorithm, which probably also is worth patenting.

Luis B. Almeida

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