Friday, August 19, 2011

Rules for calculation


The Times has done it again. In a report on the HP takeover of Autonomy we hear once again that “It was Bayesian theory that led Dr Lynch to formulate the logarithms that underpin Autonomy’s search software.”

Well I expect there are some logarithms in the Autonomy algorithms (which are protected by 170 patents).

But I expect that John Napier & Henry Briggs would be unhappy to hear that logarithms were not formulated until the C 20th

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