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Other than its general uses in math classes. The most important use is encryption.

When you have information that you are encrypting you embed into a "very" large number. (the bigger the number the better the encryption)

Then the key to unlocking that encryption is the prime factors of that "very" large number.

By "very" large number I mean numbers with more than 1,000,000,000 digits since the largest "known" Prime number is around 50,000,000 digits

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