Человек-знаковая система

[birdwatcher]

Как записать математическую формулу в виде текста? Корпоративные адвокаты не пользуются латехом, поэтому у них с веками эволюционировал свой собственный отдельный язык, самобытный и выразительный. Вот типичный образец.

Section 2.1.(c) Company Common Stock. Each issued and outstanding share of Company Common Stock (as defined in Section 3.3) shall be converted into the right to receive the sum of:
     (i) that number of shares of Common Stock equal to (A) the Exchange Ratio
(as defined below) multiplied by (B) one minus the Indemnification Percentage (as defined below).
[....]
     (iii) its applicable share of the Contingent Deferred Payment (as defined below), if any; and
     (iv) its applicable share of the Franchise Amount (as defined below), if any.
[....]
     Section 2.1.(g) As used herein, the term "Exchange Ratio" means a fraction, the numerator of which is the Net Equity Value (as defined below) and the denominator of which is $45.441667 (the "Parent Stock Price").
[.....]
     Section 2.1.(h) As used herein, the term "Net Equity Value" means a fraction, the numerator of which is (A) the excess of (i) $212,377,112.50 less (ii) in the event that the Company shall not have delivered the Franchise Certificate (as defined in Section 2.6(b)) to Parent prior to the Closing, the Initial Franchise Amount (as defined in Exhibit A-1 hereto), and (B) the denominator of which is the number of shares of Company Common Stock outstanding immediately prior to the Effective Time.
[.....]
     Section 2.1.(i) As used herein, (i) the term "Indemnification Percentage" means ten percent (10%), and (ii) [......]

Выпущенные куски составляют по нескольку экранов помех каждый. По-моему, неожиданно трогательно.

Comments

[morfizm.livejournal.com]

Вообще, они ведут себя непоследовательно. По-хорошему, надо также числа проговаривать: two hundred and twelve million three hundred and seventy-seven thousand one hundred and twelve U.S dollars and fifty cents.

[filin.livejournal.com]

Тут можно ограничиться римскими цифрами.

[yan.livejournal.com]

Есть несколько управляющих этим правил, согласно которым одни числа нужно проговаривать, а другие можно и нужно цифирками.

[averros.livejournal.com]

They forgot to specify that the numbers are decimal.

Sounds like a good business idea, though - to create a formalized computer language which can be automatically verified for not producing undesireable outcomes, and which can be translated into bulletproof legaleze. With subroutines and modules:)

[birdwatcher.livejournal.com]

Сможет ли этот язык скомпилировать лицензию на самого себя, вот в чем вопрос.