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Humankind has been concerned with the study of prime numbers for several millennia. According to some scientists, this is proved by archaeological findings from the African country Zaire, where a bone was dug up with 11, 13, 17, and 19 notches (see Fig. 11.1). Using the radiocarbon method (based on carbon chronometry of the isotope ratio of \(^{12}\)C and \(^{14}\)C), it was found to be 8000 years old. The number 11, 13, 17, and 19 probably seemed a bit strange to somebody, so he/she recorded them on the bone.
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In 1969, V. Strassen became famous by his surprising result [386] that the number of arithmetic operations of the Gaussian elimination is not asymptotically optimal.
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Křížek, M., Somer, L., Šolcová, A. (2021). Application of Primes. In: From Great Discoveries in Number Theory to Applications. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-83899-7_11
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