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Letter: To some very large numbers, and beyond (2)

Published 27 August 2025

From Richard Kay, Coventry, UK

1 × 1090 seems very small compared with the useful numbers used to generate cryptography keys. Given that such numbers are routinely involved in calculations with practical real-world applications, physical reality is no constraint to going full steam ahead further towards infinity.

Issue no. 3558 published 30 August 2025

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