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by vignesh_vs_in 4621 days ago
Prime numbers can provide the ultimate form of compression. If only there was a way to find a corresponding prime number per code base.
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There's no compression. It's expansion, since null bytes were added to increase the digit length of the resulting prime, making it long enough to publish. For an arbitrary binary, the original (most likely non-prime) zipped representation is more useful since it's smaller.
I think he is saying that for example the Linux kernel version 3.11 would be the Nth prime.