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Title: some numbers are illegal Post by Bobby. on Aug 17th, 2024 at 8:55pm
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Illegal_number
An illegal number is a number that represents information which is illegal to possess, utter, propagate, or otherwise transmit in some legal jurisdiction. Any piece of digital information is representable as a number; consequently, if communicating a specific set of information is illegal in some way, then the number may be illegal as well. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LnEyjwdoj7g |
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Title: Re: some numbers are illegal Post by Bobby. on Aug 17th, 2024 at 8:57pm
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Illegal_number
Illegal primes An illegal prime is an illegal number which is also prime. One of the earliest illegal prime numbers was generated in March 2001 by Phil Carmody. Its binary representation corresponds to a compressed version of the C source code of a computer program implementing the DeCSS decryption algorithm, which can be used by a computer to circumvent a DVD's copy protection.[14] Protests against the indictment of DeCSS author Jon Lech Johansen and legislation prohibiting publication of DeCSS code took many forms.[15] One of them was the representation of the illegal code in a form that had an intrinsically archivable quality. Since the bits making up a computer program also represent a number, the plan was for the number to have some special property that would make it archivable and publishable (one method was to print it on a T-shirt). The primality of a number is a fundamental property of number theory and is therefore not dependent on legal definitions of any particular jurisdiction. The large prime database of the PrimePages website records the top 20 primes of various special forms; one of them is proof of primality using the elliptic curve primality proving (ECPP) algorithm. Thus, if the number were large enough and proved prime using ECPP, it would be published. That number is here: https://t5k.org/curios/page.php?number_id=953 This was the first known illegal prime. |
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Title: Re: some numbers are illegal Post by chimera on Aug 17th, 2024 at 9:16pm
There's a sardine that no-one has seen, if you can get there before anyone. Also a star if you get in early and patent it. It's prime real estate.
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