Mathematicians Come Up with New Method for Defining Prime Numbers

3 Stratoscope 1 6/18/2025, 2:51:06 AM scientificamerican.com ↗

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necovek · 5h ago
Would this have any application to breaking RSA? Is it computationaly any simpler to use these partition functions to answer definitely if a particular number is prime or not?

As there are "infinitely many" such equations involving partition functions, seems not, but I didn't dive deeper.