Microsoft Patents Ones, Zeroes | The Onion - America's Finest News Source

[Scott Elcomb]

On Fri, Nov 14, 2008 at 5:54 PM, Paul King <sciguy-Ja3L+HSX0kI at public.gmane.org> wrote:
>> http://www.theonion.com/content/node/29130
>> --
[...]
>    Lattimore said that the only mathematical constructs of which Microsoft
>    may not be able to claim ownership are infinity and transcendental numbers
>    like pi. Microsoft lawyers are expected to file liens on infinity and pi
>    this week.

Looks like they forgot about the set of transfinite numbers.  (Good
business opportunity here!  ;-)

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