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What are prime numbers used for in the real world?
cryptography
What is a diagram used to identify the prime factors of a composite number?
factor tree
What are some common uses for prime numbers?
There are few real-life uses for prime numbers. Nevertheless, they do have a useful purpose in some cases. For instance:Circada's only come out at time periods of 13 or 17. These are prime, and mean that a predator coming out at another value (say 4 or 6) will be less likely to catch them.Prime numbers are used to contact aliens. They are a simple but universal phenomenon that will indicate our intelligence.Prime numbers are used in encryption. It is much harder to crack a code with a big number that is the product of two large prime numbers than one which has lots of factors.
Uses of prime numbers in daily life?
Prime numbers are used to encrypt credit cards and identify them.
How is prime and composite numbers used in the real world?
we have 7 days in a week. 7 is a prime number. there are 31 days in some months.31 is a prime number
