http://www.w3.org/ns/prov#value | - When I learned> this stuff, it had essentially no application at all; now the computers> used by banks and other financial organizations make millions of> calculations every day (indeed, probably every second!) that depend > vitally on the assumption that factorizing large numbers is hard.> > Again, the theory of finite fields was a theoretical backwater> when I learned it; but a few years later i
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