Re: [math-fun] "What applications does that have?"

I thought everyone just talked about people thinking prime numbers were useless for hundreds of years before they turned into the infrastructure for the little lock in the corner of your browser that let you use your credit card on the web. --Michael On Tue, Mar 6, 2018 at 1:06 PM, Josh Jordan <josh@joshjordan.name> wrote:

On Tue, Mar 6, 2018 at 1:04 PM, Joerg Arndt <arndt@jjj.de> wrote:

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I'd like to hear a way of answering ["What applications does that have?"] without appearing to be rude.

How about, "none that I know of"?

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