Illegal prime - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

cab1729:

An illegal prime is a prime number that represents information that it is forbidden to possess or distribute. One of the first illegal primes was discovered in 2001. When interpreted in a particular way, it describes a computer program that bypasses the digital rights management scheme used on DVDs. Distribution of such a program in the United States is illegal under the Digital Millennium Copyright Act.[1] An illegal prime is a kind of illegal number.

(and don’t even get me started on the binary representation of Pi)

(Reblogged from proofmathisbeautiful)

Notes

  1. tallpawl reblogged this from proofmathisbeautiful
  2. alexlovesclay reblogged this from proofmathisbeautiful
  3. cakeandpi reblogged this from proofmathisbeautiful
  4. gashmoygedied reblogged this from proofmathisbeautiful and added:
    I love how these can exist.
  5. ardentsonata reblogged this from spetharrific
  6. quizas-si reblogged this from proofmathisbeautiful
  7. themanwhocriedtruth reblogged this from proofmathisbeautiful and added:
    Politics has no place in Mathematics.
  8. nicoptere reblogged this from proofmathisbeautiful
  9. phallusifer9 reblogged this from proofmathisbeautiful
  10. ellabelladani reblogged this from bearclawbrnwa
  11. bearclawbrnwa reblogged this from proofmathisbeautiful
  12. kevinbli reblogged this from proofmathisbeautiful
  13. keplereleven reblogged this from antitau and added:
    Weird uh? We live in a world in which some numbers are illegal!
  14. antitau reblogged this from earlgreybloke
  15. earlgreybloke reblogged this from logicianmagician
  16. logicianmagician reblogged this from proofmathisbeautiful
  17. excessbrainsiphon reblogged this from proofmathisbeautiful
  18. llnd reblogged this from proofmathisbeautiful
  19. franc0ise reblogged this from proofmathisbeautiful and added:
    we no it wud contain so many things, rite?
  20. priyasonyyy reblogged this from proofmathisbeautiful
  21. sleepisoverated reblogged this from proofmathisbeautiful
  22. hareteeth reblogged this from ultraparametric
  23. nildaantonio reblogged this from proofmathisbeautiful
  24. judsondunn reblogged this from proofmathisbeautiful
  25. spetharrific reblogged this from proofmathisbeautiful and added:
    THE BINARY REPRESENTATION OF PI xD or any non-terminating, non-repeating decimal real (i.e. the irrationals). also of...
  26. molosseraptor reblogged this from proofmathisbeautiful
  27. n0th1ngh3r3 reblogged this from proofmathisbeautiful