tw8023@pyuxii.UUCP (T Wheeler) (09/18/85)
A new super prime number for you to ponder is: 2 to the 261,091 power -1 Check it out. T. C. Wheeler
luner@uwai.UUCP (09/21/85)
Reminded by T. C. Wheeler: > A new super prime number for you to ponder is: > > 2 to the 261,091 power -1 I saw the small blurb on this in the Milwaukee Journal a couple days ago. After letting us on to this new secret, they added: "...prime numbers have no practical use." Sigh. /DLL
carl@aoa.UUCP (Carl Witthoft) (09/26/85)
In article <242@uwai.UUCP> luner@uwai.UUCP writes: >> 2 to the 261,091 power -1 >I saw the small blurb on this in the Milwaukee Journal a couple days ago. After >letting us on to this new secret, they added: > >"...prime numbers have no practical use." Which just goes to show what idiots The Mil.Jnl. must employ. Ask any mathematician, cryptographer, engineer, etc. what primes are good for. Maybe the Mil.Jnl. doesnt think pi and e have any use, either? Darwin's Dad (Carl Witthoft) ...!{decvax,linus,ima,ihnp4}!bbncca!aoa!carl @ Adaptive Optics Assoc., 54 Cambridgepark Dr. Cambridge, MA 02140 617-864-0201 " Buffet-Crampon R-13 , VanDoren B-45, and VanDoren Fortes ."
pjk@hou2a.UUCP (P.KEMP) (09/27/85)
> From: luner@uwai.UUCP > > Reminded by T. C. Wheeler: > > > A new super prime number for you to ponder is: > > > > 2 to the 261,091 power -1 > > I saw the small blurb on this in the Milwaukee Journal a couple days ago. After > letting us on to this new secret, they added: > > "...prime numbers have no practical use." > > Sigh. > > /DLL I thought very large prime numbers were used in various encryption schemes. Paul Kemp ihnp4!hou2a!pjk The above statements are those of the author only, and are not those of AT&T Bell Laboratories.
dmcanzi@watdcsu.UUCP (David Canzi) (09/28/85)
In article <242@uwai.UUCP> luner@uwai.UUCP writes: >Reminded by T. C. Wheeler: > >> A new super prime number for you to ponder is: >> >> 2 to the 261,091 power -1 > >I saw the small blurb on this in the Milwaukee Journal a couple days ago. After >letting us on to this new secret, they added: > >"...prime numbers have no practical use." > >Sigh. Hmmm... a little NSA-inspired disinformation, perhaps? 0.5 * :-) -- David Canzi "It's Reagan's fault. Everything's Reagan's fault. Floods... volcanoes... herpes... Reagan's fault." -- Editor Overbeek, Bloom Beacon
maurice@nmtvax.UUCP (09/29/85)
Need a handy prime number? This is a prime number a math prof. here
will usually bring up when he needs a prime. Yes it is prime, and
he says it's easy to remember. This is the number:
23456789
surprized aren't you?
rogerjohn@frog.UUCP (John Woods) (10/02/85)
> > A new super prime number for you to ponder is: > > 2 to the 261,091 power -1 > > Check it out. > T. C. Wheeler > OK. 2...no 3...no 5...no 7...no ... -- John Woods, Charles River Data Systems, Framingham MA, (617) 626-1101 ...!decvax!frog!john, ...!mit-eddie!jfw, jfw%mit-ccc@MIT-XX.ARPA "Out of my way, I'm a scientist!" - War of the Worlds