On Mon, May 12, 2014, at 03:36 AM, Georgi Guninski wrote: > Probably this is well known. > > http://www.freepatentsonline.com/5373560.html > > http://mathworld.wolfram.com/PrimeNumber.html > (check (3)) > > > Because of their importance in encryption algorithms such as RSA > > encryption, prime numbers can be important commercial commodities. In fact, > > R. Schlafly (1994) has obtained U.S. Patent 5373560 on the following two > > primes (expressed in hexadecimal notation): > > fuck, fuck, fuck.
The silver lining to this cloud is that these patents have almost certainly expired by now or will very soon, given that they date from 1994. -- Shawn K. Quinn [email protected]
