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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)
(via proofmathisbeautiful)
I love how these can exist.
Politics has no place in Mathematics.
Weird uh? We live in a world in which some numbers are illegal!
we no it wud contain so many things, rite?
THE BINARY REPRESENTATION OF PI xD or any non-terminating, non-repeating decimal real (i.e. the irrationals). also of...