What’s so weird about prime numbers?

[Randy]

The fact you can shop safely on the internet is thanks to prime numbers – those digits that can only be divided by themselves and one. Public key encryption – the heartbeat of internet commerce – uses prime numbers to fashion keys capable of locking away your sensitive information from prying eyes. And yet, despite their fundamental importance to our everyday lives, the primes remain an enigma. An apparent pattern within them – the Riemann hypothesis – has tantalised some of the brightest minds in mathematics for centuries. However, as yet, no one has been able to tame their weirdness. Doing so might just break the internet.

Thoughts?

 

[Smiley]

It's all fun & games until someone divides by zero. That's when manure collides with the propeller.

 

[Nebulous's iconNebulous]

It's all fun & games until someone divides by zero. That's when manure collides with the propeller.

Lol, I'd hate to be the guy walking down the sidewalk behind that fan.