I guess my sense of humor is too dry.
I know the godaddy server idea is useless.
But then, calculating a universe
hexagonal close-packed with Hydrogen
struck me as being a bit overboard too.
Just thought I would join in the fun.

On Fri, Apr 24, 2009 at 12:44 PM, Zsbán Ambrus <[email protected]> wrote:

> On Fri, Apr 24, 2009 at 6:40 PM, Zsbán Ambrus <[email protected]> wrote:
> > The point is, an average home computer can easily test the primality
> > of any one really huge number in a few moments (and does too when
> > doing public-key cryptography),
> ...
> > The same is true for factorization,
>
> I'm being a bit imprecise here though, because while a usual home
> computer does do primality tests for public-key cryptography, I do now
> think it performs prime factorizatoin often.
>
> Ambrus
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