Comment on New largest prime number discovered by former Nvidia software engineer

• Urist@lemmy.ml ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Much of the basis for the RSA cryptosystem, and by extension much of modern computing, was done by some mathematician who prided himself that his work was not applied mathematics and could not ever be applied in any way (bonus point for being pertinent to the topic of large primes). Science is exploratory work, not a straight path to some predefined goal. The person above is evidently clueless as to how science is conducted.

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  • Valmond@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Yes I’m with you 100% there :-)

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• JackbyDev@programming.dev ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Solar freaking roadways

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