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Re:Ask HN: What are the numbers everyone should know in 2019? by hjk05 on Sunday May 26, 2019 @04:21PM (#20017243)
That’s such a great way to communicate the current state of the field. Do you have a reference for that? And so you know what the largest number factored for algorithms that don scale into the cryptographic levels is?
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Re:Ask HN: What are the numbers everyone should know in 2019? by saagarjha on Sunday May 26, 2019 @04:22PM (#20017260)
> And so you know what the largest number factored for algorithms that don scale into the cryptographic levels is?

You're going to have to qualify this more, because I can factor 2^googol pretty well…

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