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just_another_person@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

Yes. The amount of effort and resources used to do this shouldn’t just be a fucking waste.

This is a fucking waste. Proper fucking waste.

Nobody will use this math in our lifetime. Probably not the next generation either. We’re incapable of using it in any meaningful way except bragging rights.

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_bcron_@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

Nobody will use this math in our lifetime.

That’s a presumption. Have you ever considered that there’s a non-zero chance that you’re wrong?

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- just_another_person@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
  It’s not a presumption when there is no basis for it all. It’s a fucking fact.
  
  If there was a segment of society that said “Hey, we really want to do this thing, but we really just need the highest prime number possible! Why won’t anyone find that for us?” Then I’d say OK.
  
  You’ve got a guy out to beat a record and get his name on the books here. Useless.
  
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  - catloaf@lemm.ee ⁨10⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
    That segment exists. That’s literally why they are continually trying to find larger primes.
    
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    just_another_person@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
    Again, to what use?
    
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SexualPolytope@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨6⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
If smart people thought like this, we won’t have cryptography.

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