[Geowanking] help invalidate a silly MS geographical patent application

[Andy Armstrong]

On 7 Feb 2005, at 09:30, Andy Armstrong wrote:
> I'm pretty sure this wasn't an MS proposal but I can't now find it 
> with Google. Anyone remember what it is? The MS proposal (I think) 
> misses out on the whole variable precision benefit of this approach.

Oh and Garmin have always used 32 bit fixed point numbers as fractions 
between -180 and +180 in this way - although I don't know if that's 
helpful in this context.

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Andy Armstrong, hexten.net