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From: jas@llama.Ingres.COM (Jim Shankland)
Newsgroups: comp.arch
Subject: Re: Patents and Architecture
Message-ID: <1990Jul14.203455.24541@ingres.Ingres.COM>
Date: 14 Jul 90 20:34:55 GMT
References: <PCG.90Jun30223813@odin.cs.aber.ac.uk> <1990Jul3.173620.7929@cl.cam.ac.uk> <7860@fy.sei.cmu.edu>
Reply-To: jas@llama.Ingres.COM (Jim Shankland)
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In article <7860@fy.sei.cmu.edu> firth@sei.cmu.edu (Robert Firth) writes:
>In article <1990Jul3.173620.7929@cl.cam.ac.uk> cet1@cl.cam.ac.uk (C.E. Thompson) writes:
>>Of course, the question as to whether mathematics is discovered or invented,
>>as a separate issue from patentability, has been a disputed question for a
>>long time. "Die ganzen Zahlen hat der liebe Gott geschaffen, alles andere ist
>>Menschenwerk" (Leopold Kronecker) is the obligatory quotation here.
>
>How about: 'Den Ganzen Zahlen hat der lieber Gott gemacht;
>	    alles Uebriges ist Menschenkunst.'

I doubt it very much.  Kronecker, as a native German speaker, would
have said "Die ganzen Zahlen ...".

jas