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On Wed, 4 Jan 2006, Rick Buford wrote:
So, for the more mathematically challenged of us, what is the benefit of
this kind of research?
I don't know a lot about it, so I hope Stephen will chime in. I do hear
that large primes can be used in cryptography, but I don't know if "the
largest known prime" is really useful for that.
It is often said that number theory is an area of pure math with few
applications, but I'll want to hear Stephen's views on that.
Mike
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