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> yet it uses basic math from hundred or thousands of years back as if that was an argument. We use the wheel for a gazillion o "important and f daily life" ap
by oraetlabora 4y ago
> yet it uses basic math from hundred or thousands of years back
as if that was an argument. We use the wheel for a gazillion o "important and f daily life" applications.
- ausudhz 4y agoGreat, you totally missed the point. While the wheel has been used from the next day of its invention till today, the Fermat's little theorem had no application outside of pure math for roughly 400 years.
- trompetenaccoun 4y agoTo be fair there was no obvious point, so how could it be missed? You simply wrote it's interesting without explaining what you find interesting about it.
- ausudhz 4y ago[flagged]
- Dylan16807 4y agoKnowing when Fermat's little theorem gets used outside math is not basic knowledge!
- ausudhz 4y ago[flagged]
- Dylan16807 4y agoThose classes might mention this use. They're unlikely to teach students that it wasn't used elsewhere (outside math) until then, which is a crucial part of the point you were making. Seriously, that specific aspect is trivia, not basic knowledge, even in the realm of cryptography.
- ausudhz 4y agoThough there could've been different ways to ask rather than saying, arrogantly, "wheel is used everyday too"
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- imwillofficial 4y agoI’ve taken many a crypto class and never picked up that nugget. You made a social misstep. Accept the correction with grace, try to be better, and move on.
- ausudhz 4y agoYou took the wrong one
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- imwillofficial 4y agoNo, you just have a pet fact that doesn’t really matter to anyone but you