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Well, yeah, pretty much. In number theory you study properties/patterns of the numbers. This is an example of such a property. These properties often seem lik
by ipince 7y ago
Well, yeah, pretty much.
In number theory you study properties/patterns of the numbers. This is an example of such a property.
These properties often seem like they don’t have any applications, and often they don’t, but not always. For example, cryptography is basically all based on number theory.
- seph-reed 7y agoI watched a great series once on generating ~prime numbers which explained how to use number theory to check a randomly generated number for a probability of being prime. By using a bunch of weird rules, you can be ~99% sure it's prime without having to do huge computations.