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rcain@netcom.com (Robert Cain) writes:

>It has been pointed out to me that Julius Ceasar used the polynomial

>	C = M+1(mod n)

>where M are the alphabet message chunks and n is the size of the
>alphabet.  For english n=26 which is the composite of the two primes
>2 and 13 so I believe that prior art (very prior) has been established.
>Any comments?

You cannot take a patent apart claim by claim. The patent
is the combination of the claims, not a mere collection.

If I combine several well known things for the first time
and the things have never been used in that combination before,
I can patent it.

Casper