Prime Curios!: 1997

1997
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The MULTIPLE PRECISION JavaScript Calculator was created by Patrick De Geest of Belgium in 1997 (a prime year). Its construction was stopped due to the discovery of UBASIC.

phi(1997) = 1!₂ + 9!₂ + 9!₂ + 7!₂. Note that the prime 1997 is the only number greater than one with this property. [Firoozbakht]

Prime numbers and Cartesian coordinates play a key role in the 1997 movie Cube.

The Internet's first general-purpose distributed computing project (www.distributed.net) was founded in 1997. Among its first projects was cracking RSA and DES encryption keys.

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