You answered my question with a new question.

Suppose I can prove it, like I have video tape of all of it.

What would you say? Is one number copyrightable if arriving at the knowledge that it is the optimal number to use is original? Meaning, before I said it, nobody knew what the optimal number was?

How many numbers (or put it another way, if we talk about a recipe) how many ingredients (nodes) and how many words with instructions how to prepare the ingredients (connections, parameter values) until the recipe is copyrightable?

I know a list of ingredients alone is not copyrightable. But how to assemble them (a recipe) is copyrightable according to the US copyright office.

But of course there are recipes nobody can copyright, like how to make a hard boiled egg or a soft boiled egg. (Same ingredients, nearly the same process, but one parameter is different) It's too simple - everybody knows it - or is it simple - is it really something everybody knows without research or teaching?

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