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On 24 Nov 2003 at 23:41, BenoƮt Sibaud wrote:
http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/28/34148.html
Is this for real?
I don't know, but at the digital era, every content IS a number (eg a CD is just a number with 650 millions of binary digits). That leads to many roads...
<wince> what an awful world that would be.
I'm guessing it has to do primarily with encryption and finding large prime numbers. However, if you allow that then what's to stop newly discovered comological constants like planck's constant or the mass or charge of an electron (I don't mean these in particular, but rather new ones discovered - it would have a chilling effect on research).
Do you think it's some form of mass insanity currently going around the US? Let's hope it isn't too contagious and someone finally tells the emporer he's wearing no clothes.
Cheers, Niall