Does this matter?
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http://www.cnn.com/2003/TECH/sci…
For God's sake, don't we have AIDS to cure? Herpes to cure? Non-polluting fuels to invent?
I'll believe in the Sasquatch before I'll believe there's a need for their finding a huge number.
arg!
- swollenelbow0
what shit.
- ********0
trivial pursuit
- kpl0
yes it matters, you math hater.
show me how you can find a cure for aids by leaving your computer on overnight and I'll buy you a steak dinner.
- Mimio0
There's no monmey in cures man. The money is in the treatment. Welcome to capitalism.
- unknown0
But what does that number allow them to do?
- brundlefly0
gahhw
what doesnt it allow us to do....
why would you need to know the uses of said number.....
- kpl0
encryption algorithms are based on large primes, for instance.
- Skylark0
dont matter to me. thats for sure.
- brundlefly0
Kpl, don't spill the beans, this is strictly a need to know situation.
- kpl0
posters. posters with large primes printed on them are cool, i saw them all the time in math class.
- ********0
nah, it really doesn't matter
the end
- tfs__mag0
a better understanding of mathematics and number theory helps pretty much every scientific field out there.... cause and effect. seems trivial, but it's just a step in the ladder.
- ********0
really, explain further
- mitsu0
actually, science benefits heavily from math. don't be so quick to scoff it.
- ********0
For my degree in science, I was forced to take way too much Calculus and Physics. I would also say no, but yes, I mean there could be something to him figuring that out. However, science in general isn't as exact as people think, so you never know.
- ********0
product of software
"It's a neat accomplishment, but it really doesn't have any applicability."
- sparker0
math is the key to the universe, pups...
- ********0
but math is greater than thousands of plastic boxes calculating in lock step...
- Mimio0
WRONG.
The power of Castle Greyskull is.
- ********0
that's what I meant tfs