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From: pjk@hou2a.UUCP (P.KEMP)
Newsgroups: net.misc
Subject: Re: Prime Numbers Again
Message-ID: <650@hou2a.UUCP>
Date: Thu, 26-Sep-85 17:05:09 EDT
Article-I.D.: hou2a.650
Posted: Thu Sep 26 17:05:09 1985
Date-Received: Sat, 28-Sep-85 07:28:50 EDT
References: <235@pyuxii.UUCP>, <242@uwai.UUCP>
Organization: AT&T Bell Labs, Holmdel NJ
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>  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.


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