B166ER - Made in Cyberspace » Slashdot http://www.b166er.com Technology, Science and Money Thu, 17 Jun 2010 12:17:24 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 A finger to the MPAA. http://www.b166er.com/2007/05/a-finger-to-the-mpaa/ http://www.b166er.com/2007/05/a-finger-to-the-mpaa/#comments Tue, 01 May 2007 21:01:43 +0000 Shohat http://www.b166er.com/2007/05/a-finger-to-the-mpaa/ 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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http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=07/02/04/1357230
Nothing too fancy or informative in the summary or comments , so I headed to the article . This is what the http://web2journal.com/read/331813.htm page looks like : Click here to see the worst adsoup on the web.

Brilliant table-based (not very Web 2.0) design , with a HUGE moving ad in the middle of the screen, and 12 more scattered around it .

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