Copyright and patent attempt to protect you from others stealing your research & efforts involved in producing a product. If someone represents your idea as a n

Copyright and patent attempt to protect you from others stealing your research & efforts involved in producing a product. If someone represents your idea as a number, and then copies it with the intention of using it for their own purposes without coming to a licencing arrangement with you, then they have broken copyright / patent. It's incidental that the representation of the information is numerical. Additionally the likelihood of some other useful random number coinciding with the numerical representation of your special information is also extremely low - hence why the OP used a prime ( which are pretty common ), and also why it's interesting ( and therefore exceptional ).