Re:Shamir's Secret Sharing
by nanimo on Sunday August 19, 2018 @04:03AM
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It's amazing how this is a practical piece of math that can be understood with little more than a basic familiarity with polynomials. This is the kind of stuff I'd loved to have learned in middle school!
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It was used in my college Discrete Math class (a version specifically aimed at Computer Science students) as an exercise in formally proving the properties of a real-life system. That was a fun lecture :-D