what is the actual real-world application of prime numbers? Or is it just a math concept that’s neat to see and figure out but doesn’t have any actual use case?

Question

I read that they have some uses within online encryption, but to be honest I never really thought about why we learned them in school until this morning.

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Answer 1

To say they have uses in online encryption is a big understatement.

Prime factorization is the entire basis of internet security.