Microsoft Seeks Latitude/Longitude Patent

theodp writes "Q. What does Microsoft feel is unpatentable? A. Apparently nothing! On Thursday, the USPTO published Microsoft's patent application for the Compact text encoding of latitude/longitude coordinates, in which the software giant explains how a floating-point number can also be represented as a less-precise integer that's displayed in base-30 notation!" If ever I have seen a silly patent, this is it.

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Re:Is it entirely MS's fault?

[eric76]

If I patent a method for encoding my dick length in a 16 bit integer, will Microsoft be willing to enter a cross licensing agreement with me?