Great! great!! We could set a contest, where people should give answers in the spirit of this answer by Spike, to the question: "What is the use of large primes?"
Best answers will win the 'Prize of the Great Expert Primus', or something, etc. I am usually quoting with care, but this time I'll copy the message again, so that you can enjoy it again. > > Del S. Brand wrote: > > > > I always get asked what is the purpose or use for such large prime > > numbers. Since I'm not a math geek, I don't know what to tell them. > > > > Any ideas? > > > > D.Brand > > > Its a universal defense mechanism, similar to the > Egyption pyramids. When invaders wandered into > Egypt, they saw these enormous squared-off mountains, > clearly man made. Surely this society had soooo > many guys and soooo much spare time on its hands > as to do this, they better not mess with them. They > turned south and invaded there instead. > > If we contact extra-terrestrials, we send them our > enormous primes. They realize we have so many > idle computer and brains, they better be nice to > us. They turn south and go invade Venus instead. > > spike ________________________ Lampros F. Kallenos "...EKANAN OISTRO THS ZWHS Idalion, Lefkosia TO FOBO TOU QANATOU" Kypros -- _________________________________________________________________________ Unsubscribe & list info -- http://www.ndatech.com/mersenne/signup.htm Mersenne Prime FAQ -- http://www.tasam.com/~lrwiman/FAQ-mers
