Re: McCanney's Algorithm for Calculating Primes

nmm1@xxxxxxxxxxxxx (Nick Maclaren) writes:


In article <404ee4-e3a.ln1@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>,
"Chris F.A. Johnson" <cfajohnson@xxxxxxxxx> writes:
|> On 2007-04-05, dave wrote:
|>
|> > The book contains a prohibition against posting any of its content
|> > (directly quoted or paraphrased) to the internet.
|>
|> Copyright does not cover ideas, only the words used for their
|> expression, so a paraphrase cannot be prohibited.

Unless it was bought under contract (including licence). I doubt that
it was.


That is irrelevant. The license under copyright law cannot control anything
but copying. Now you could sign a non-disclosure agreement, but you would
have to actively sign it, not simply buy the book.


|> > So anyone not willing to spend $20 to get a copy of McCanney's book
|> > should just forget about his algorithm for calculating primes and
|> > move along.

I am prepared to bet that the book contains nothing that isn't already
known to number theorists, couched in some incomprehensible gibberish
to make it hard for anyone to discover that fact. It may include some
things that most mathematicians don't know off the top of their heads,
but that isn't the same.

Even if "dave" were to put his money where his mouth is and back such
a bet, I am disinclined to waste the effort proving the matter.


I fall in the same camp. Life has more than enough garbage to contend with
without crawling into yet another dustbin.

.