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Title: Does running Prime95 help with Bitcoin?
Post by: HorseCoin on February 21, 2014, 09:40:42 PM
like generation of large prime numbers.  does it help any way with encryption?  i still run it cause it's science related and i love science.


Title: Re: Does running Prime95 help with Bitcoin?
Post by: Holliday on February 21, 2014, 09:41:30 PM
No.


Title: Re: Does running Prime95 help with Bitcoin?
Post by: Foxpup on February 22, 2014, 02:56:21 AM
Math is not science.


Title: Re: Does running Prime95 help with Bitcoin?
Post by: dx5 on February 22, 2014, 05:34:16 AM
Noob question. But what makes prime numbers so important in science.


Title: Re: Does running Prime95 help with Bitcoin?
Post by: b!z on February 22, 2014, 02:09:21 PM
Noob question. But what makes prime numbers so important in science.

http://math.stackexchange.com/questions/7377/why-are-very-large-prime-numbers-important-in-cryptography
http://arstechnica.com/science/2013/02/ask-ars-why-spend-time-and-money-finding-new-prime-numbers/