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There shouldn't be any patents for algorithms - algorithms are math, and math is not patentable.


Math is all prior art!


Mechanical diagrams are also math.


Algorithms and mechanical diagrams are both math in the same way that the Pythagorean Theorem and a picture of some triangles are both math.




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