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What set of numbers equals one in the UK in the legal sense?

In the UK, in the legal sense, all numbers greater than 0,5 and less than 1,5 are assigned to the unit. The reason for this decision was a lawsuit between two pharmaceutical companies. One of them owns a patent for a wound healing agent containing silver ions from 1 to 25% by weight of the drug, and the other has released a similar agent, which includes 0,77% of such ions. Previously, in such cases, numbers greater than 0,95 were taken as a unit, however, when considering the case, the court found an asymmetry in the definition, decided to consider everything in the range from 0,5 to 1,5 as a unit, and thereby satisfied the claim for patent infringement.

Authors: Jimmy Wales, Larry Sanger

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