RSA-129 - Numberphile
The large number "RSA-129" posed a challenge experts said would take 40 quadrillion years to solve - but took 17. Featuring Ron Rivest, co-inventor of RSA... More links below... Our original...
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It's fairly large. There are bigger ones. But it's a nice big number, yep. And it's a particular number, it's a number I've had some association with, you might say. This number is 129 decimal digits long, so it's probably more than your calculator can handle easily. Although maybe these days calculators are getting pretty smart. But it's something a computer could work with easily, and in fact computers have, and might have good reasons to work with them. This number has a history that goes back to the late '70s. We created this number as a challenge. I don't remember the number, I haven't memorized it. So if you'd like I could read you a few of the digits. So, 114... 3816257578888 (That's four eights in ...
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It's fairly large. There are bigger ones. But it's a nice big number, yep. And it's a particular number, it's a number I've had some association with, you might say. This number is 129 decimal digits long, so it's probably more than your calculator can handle easily. Although maybe these days calculators are getting pretty smart. But it's something a computer could work with easily, and in fact computers have, and might have good reasons to work with them. This number has a history that goes back to the late '70s. We created this number as a challenge. I don't remember the number, I haven't memorized it. So if you'd like I could read you a few of the digits. So, 114... 3816257578888 (That's four eights in ...
