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Letter to the Patent Office From Professor Donald Knuth February 1994 Commissioner of Patents and Trademarks Box 4 Patent and Trademark Office Washington, DC 20231 Dear Commissioner: Along with many other computer scientists, I would like to ask you to reconsider the current policy of giving patents for computational processes. I find a considerable anxiety […]

There are interesting similitude in “succession of actions” (algorithms) that we can find on the 3 subjects In mathematics and computer science, an algorithm is a procedure (a finite set of well-defined instructions) for accomplishing some task which, given an initial state, will terminate in a defined end-state. Informally, the concept of an algorithm is […]