12 May
2014
12 May
'14
9:25 a.m.
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 skquinn@rushpost.com