09 F9 11 02 9D 74 E3 5B D8 41 56 C5 63 56 88 C0.
MPAA is trying to get this number “censored” and sending takedown notices to anyone hosting it, ranging from simple Blogs to Digg news items. Here’s a hint- numbers can’t be censored, or trademarked – this is actually one of the reasons the Pentium trademark was born(instead of a 586), because numbers are hard to “defend” as intelletctual property of any kind, and certainly as an encryption key, which is a natural use for a number – a mathematical operation.
Quoting an awesome Slashdot comment …
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This is merely a very famous (from now on, hint, hint) number theory curiosity:
09F911029D74E35BD84156C5635688C0
is the hexadecimal representation (with leading zero to round off to 32 hex digits) of
13256278887989457651018865901401704640 decimal
which amazingly enough, is equal to the huge prime number
13256278887989457651018865901401704613 + 3^3 (i.e. + 27)
Astonishingly, the next prime after that is only 31 away, so our famous number can also be represented as
13256278887989457651018865901401704671 – 31
It is also very interesting because it is also equal to the product of the following prime numbers:
2^6 * 5 * 19 * 12043 * 216493 * 836256503069278983442067
Truthfully, when was the last time you saw any remotely similar number? Never, right? We better record this for mathematical posterity!!!
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