Favrion@lemmy.world to math@lemmy.worldEnglish · 8 months agoIs there a name for numbers whose only factors are primes and semiprimes but may not be primes in themselves?message-squaremessage-square4fedilinkarrow-up117arrow-down10file-text
arrow-up117arrow-down1message-squareIs there a name for numbers whose only factors are primes and semiprimes but may not be primes in themselves?Favrion@lemmy.world to math@lemmy.worldEnglish · 8 months agomessage-square4fedilinkfile-text
minus-squareyimolinkfedilinkarrow-up2·8 months agoI think numbers like these would be very useful in cryptography, where the higher the power of a prime factor sometimes, the easier it is to factor it. Some probably obscure probability calculations and so on
I think numbers like these would be very useful in cryptography, where the higher the power of a prime factor sometimes, the easier it is to factor it. Some probably obscure probability calculations and so on