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I take issue with the presenting of this. The prime itself is kind of useless. What is useful is the number, plus the instructions about what to do with it, ho
by maximumoverload 12y ago
I take issue with the presenting of this.
The prime itself is kind of useless. What is useful is the number, plus the instructions about what to do with it, how to run it, how to apply it.
This is similar to saying "Book is just a collection of letters, but you can distribute the actual letters one by one and it's allright, isn't copyright absurd?".
- thisjepisje 12y agoYou're right, the "it's just a number" argument doesn't hold up. What's interesting in this case though, is that it's not just any other number, but a prime of mathematical relevance.