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SciShow Tangents

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The Number of Transistors on the First TI Calculator

The number 65,537 is a commonly used value in the RSA algorithm which is used to encrypt our data. It's something that was commonly used from the beginning and so it's just sort of kind of continued being really common. The idea is that if you're sending a message to a friend you can use their public key to encrypt their message.

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