I don't think I'd like math, if I didn't like cryptography.

G.E.B., E.G.B. helped me love math again too.

Stupid 4th grade "you're gifted, you don't need instructions" teacher.  :-)P

(Just kidding Mr. B, I'm over it.  Really.  I *like* math now, so, pbbbbt!)

I still suck at it, but it's freakishly useful, ya know?

LOL!

It's  Sorta Beautiful, too...  from an untrained eye, at least.

-- 
When we come to images or memories or thoughts, speculation, while
always closely related to practice, is more explicit, and it is in
fact not immediately obvious that such processes can be described in
any sense as practical.
Samuel Alexander

On Mon, Sep 29, 2008 at 3:11 PM, Judah McAuley wrote:
> Large prime numbers are used in random number generators, which are
> important for cryptography. Since large prime numbers are not evenly spaced
> (we don't know where the next one will be), they are used for creating a
> sequence that ends up being fed into the random number generator. As I
> recall, the remainder of the division of large prime numbers is the
> important bit.
>
> Judah

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