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[–] nakal@kbin.social 192 points 11 months ago (8 children)

Programs are mathematical proofs. If maths cannot be patented, software can't be, either.

[–] GeniusIsme@lemmy.world 11 points 11 months ago (5 children)

Proofs can be represented as programs, not the other way around. Also, USA allows for algorithm parents, and algorithms are maths. While I agree with you, your reasoning is not correct.

[–] hglman@lemmy.ml 13 points 11 months ago (1 children)

No, the proof - program correspondence is in both directions.

[–] GeniusIsme@lemmy.world -2 points 11 months ago (3 children)

Correspondence is quite a weak relation. Very far from one being another.

[–] sukhmel@programming.dev 2 points 11 months ago

I'd say if you ask a mathematician, they would disagree with you. But maybe that depends on how far they have gone into maths from common sense

[–] nakal@kbin.social 1 points 11 months ago

That's why it's also called Curry-Howard isomorphism.

[–] MachineFab812@discuss.tchncs.de 1 points 11 months ago

Correspondence is not correlation.

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