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Sorry if this is a silly question, but where does the name come from? Googling 6.912 turns up references to "MIT 6.912 Introduction to Copyright Law".

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All of our classes are identified using numbers. The 6 corresponds to the sponsoring department (EECS) and 912 happened to be available within the department, so we snagged it.

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