I'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

I'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.)