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From: carl@aoa.UUCP (Carl Witthoft)
Newsgroups: net.misc
Subject: Re: Prime Numbers Again
Message-ID: <299@aoa.UUCP>
Date: Thu, 26-Sep-85 13:04:02 EDT
Article-I.D.: aoa.299
Posted: Thu Sep 26 13:04:02 1985
Date-Received: Tue, 1-Oct-85 07:53:48 EDT
References: <235@pyuxii.UUCP> <242@uwai.UUCP>
Reply-To: carl@aoa.UUCP (Carl Witthoft)
Organization: Adaptive Optics Assoc., Cambridge, Mass. USA
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Summary: 

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?



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