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The last years of this century have seen a reawakening of interest in Number Theory.
This is partially due to its relevance in cryptography, the key to security for e-commerce (buying and selling over the Internet) and also the proof in recent years of Fermat's Last Theorem. It seems somehow appropriate therefore that this year a new prime number has been discovered, with the help of Maple V, which has 2000 digits - a "Millennium Prime" |
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