{"id":1015,"date":"2005-02-07T13:36:17","date_gmt":"2005-02-07T13:36:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/zmetro.com\/?p=1015"},"modified":"2005-02-07T13:36:17","modified_gmt":"2005-02-07T13:36:17","slug":"microsoft_seeks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/?p=1015","title":{"rendered":"Microsoft Seeks Latitude\/Longitude Patent"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Slashdot <a href=\"http:\/\/yro.slashdot.org\/yro\/05\/02\/06\/1437236.shtml?tid=155&amp;tid=109\">discussion<\/a> Microsoft&#8217;s recent PTO office application <a href=\"http:\/\/appft1.uspto.gov\/netacgi\/nph-Parser?Sect1=PTO1&amp;Sect2=HITOFF&amp;d=PG01&amp;p=1&amp;u=%2Fnetahtml%2FPTO%2Fsrchnum.html&amp;r=1&amp;f=G&amp;l=50&amp;s1=%2220050023524%22.PGNR.&amp;OS=DN\/20050023524&amp;RS=DN\/20050023524\">for compact text encoding of latitude\/longitude coordinates<\/a>, in which the software giant explains how a floating-point number can also be represented as a less-precise integer that&#8217;s displayed in base-30 notation!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Slashdot discussion Microsoft&#8217;s recent PTO office application for 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&#8217;s displayed in base-30 notation!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1015"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1015"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1015\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1015"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1015"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1015"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}