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Just curious - is there any practical significance/use of such large primes, other than publishing?
by zkmon 4mo ago
Just curious - is there any practical significance/use of such large primes, other than publishing?
- ChucklsTheBeard 4mo agoVery large primes are not a particularly useful result. The mathematical tools which people develop along the way to finding them can be useful for other number theory problems.
- mpreda 4mo agoThe largest known prime could be considered a universal scientific benchmark. It is also a concise statement that is trivial to verify. (by "trivial" meaning much much easier to verify than to discover in the first place)