numbers
Raul Miller (rdm@test.legislate.com)
Tue, 14 Oct 1997 12:55:19 -0400
> On Oct 11, H. Peter Anvin wrote:
> > They couldn't trademark "386", or "486" because those are *NUMBERS*,
> > and the court ruled you can't own a number. However, "IA32" is
> > definitely *not* a number, and certainly could be trademarked.
koenig@ceres.tat.physik.uni-tuebingen.de <koenig@ceres.tat.physik.uni-tuebingen.de> wrote:
> using base-19 (or higher) even "IA32" is just a number (127131 dec for
> base-19;)
using base-256 (or higher) even text using latin-1 characters is
just a number. I believe that base 10 is presumed for numbers
used in court (unless explicitly stated otherwise).
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Raul