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Not necessarily. See http://arstechnica.com/science/2013/02/ask-ars-why-spend-time-and-money-finding-new-prime-numbers/ http://arstechnica.com/science/2013/02/a
by reedlaw 13y ago
Not necessarily. See http://arstechnica.com/science/2013/02/ask-ars-why-spend-time-and-money-finding-new-prime-numbers/ http://arstechnica.com/science/2013/02/ask-ars-why-spend-tim...
- javert 13y agoI'm still not convinced. I did read the whole article, but the subhead sums it up well: > That new 17-million digit Mersenne prime number might matter. Someday. (Emphasis mine, but that's not much of ringing endorsement of the usefulness of prime numbers.)