Comment by kube-system

And the entire point of a patent is to allow an inventor to profit from their invention for a fixed period of time to encourage inventors to invent things.

This makes no sense when applied to a box of numbers. Numbers cannot have money, numbers are not motivated to make money, numbers cannot do anything on their own.

This isn't real-life sesame street where today's episode was brought to us by a walking and talking number 7.