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03-25-2016, 01:07 PM
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RE: Prime numbers
(03-25-2016 12:41 PM)Claudio L. Wrote:  Some people thought this was a discovery worth publishing a paper, so at least somebody thinks it's cool to know. Not my case though, and I don't think it brings mankind closer to anything.
Well, this is the point with mathematics. You don’t know what can come out of a discovery and when. Just think about how encryption is used today, I don’t think that people working on prime factorization in the previous centuries could have envisioned this kind of application.
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Prime numbers - Tugdual - 03-22-2016, 07:49 PM
RE: Prime numbers - Valentin Albillo - 03-23-2016, 10:46 PM
RE: Prime numbers - Massimo Gnerucci - 03-23-2016, 11:17 PM
RE: Prime numbers - Valentin Albillo - 03-24-2016, 07:17 PM
RE: Prime numbers - Vtile - 03-23-2016, 11:51 PM
RE: Prime numbers - brouhaha - 03-24-2016, 07:15 AM
RE: Prime numbers - Paul Dale - 03-24-2016, 08:07 AM
RE: Prime numbers - Tugdual - 03-24-2016, 11:59 AM
RE: Prime numbers - Don Shepherd - 03-24-2016, 01:23 PM
RE: Prime numbers - Tugdual - 03-24-2016, 07:51 PM
RE: Prime numbers - emece67 - 03-25-2016, 12:24 PM
RE: Prime numbers - Tugdual - 03-25-2016, 07:29 PM
RE: Prime numbers - Claudio L. - 03-25-2016, 12:41 PM
RE: Prime numbers - Didier Lachieze - 03-25-2016 01:07 PM



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