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Jorge_Stolfi · 18-06-2026, 04:03 AM

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(16-06-2026, 06:26 PM)JustAnotherTheory wrote: You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.Here is the MD5 of the main proposition
This isn't common practice, and I hope it doesn't become common practice.

I guess I am guilty for starting this thing, with my "DAIIN MEAN USES" anagram. I though it was fun, and fit for this forum, to use a method for securing priority that was often used by scientists like Galileo and Huygens in the 1600s or so. But some people said anagrams were too amateurish and I should have used MD5 or whatever instead; while others did just did not like it at all.

Apart from the method, theft of ideas unfortunately does happen in all sciences. Bob finds out about Alice's discovery before she has the chance to publish it, and rushes to publish it first as his own. Two notable examples are the identification of the HIV virus and the discovery of cold fusion. In the latter case the thief was one of the reviewers who was assigned to evaluate the victim's paper.

All the best, stolfi