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does the current largest prime number have any practical implications as for today ?
Most cryptography is based on factoring difficulty
The primes in your RSA keys are likely to be 1024-bit primes, or about 308 digits.
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Most cryptography is based on factoring difficulty
Not using primes anywhere near the range of the largest-known ones. The primes in your RSA keys are likely to be 1024-bit primes, or about 308 digits.
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Not using primes anywhere near the range of the largest-known ones. The primes in your RSA keys are likely to be 1024-bit primes, or about 308 digits.
Plus, the (known) large ones are all of a nice enough pattern that you could almost factor just by looking at the digit count of the product.
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10, actually
https://www.reddit.com/r/ExplainTheJoke/comments/1czson4/eve...
Btw, is it possible to say such number at all? In English, I mean. How would that work?
Probably not. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Names_of_large_numbers only lists up to a Millinillion, or 10^3003. You can compound them, but it kinda defeats the point. A googol is too small, and a googolplex is too large.