13 May
2014
13 May
'14
6:18 a.m.
On Mon, May 12, 2014 at 07:56:50PM +0200, Stephan Neuhaus wrote:
On 2014-05-12, 18:25, jim bell wrote:
Also, I believe there is a rule that says that laws of nature aren't patentable. To the extent that primality is a law of nature, it shouldn't be patentable.
To be pedantic, primes aren't so much a law of *nature*, they're in *maths*. I'm not aware of any law of, e.g., physics that would depend on primes, but would love to learn of one, if one exists.
Fun,
Stephan
Allegedly Riemann zeta function is related to physics, though this well might be just speculations (search the web for ref). It is more interesting to me if sqrt(-1), n-dimensional space, etc. are part of nature...