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Letter: Letters : Hot numbers

Published 7 February 1998

From Steve Roberts

Melbourne, Australia

Italian testing for prime numbers
(This Week, 10 January, p 18) using atomic
transitions at the Nth quantum energy level will be useful for code
breaking when N gets up to the order of 10150. The liberated quantum
of energy would give the code breakers a nice, warm feeling.

Issue no. 2120 published 7 February 1998

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