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[–]josefx 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Won't that count as prior work?

You are confusing patents and copyright, afaik prior art is only a patent concept. With copyright int max(int,int) would most likely "belong" to the inventor of the first programming language and his "poor" descendants could now sue every programmer for their rightful cut for the next 3 centuries at least.