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And this helps humanity and mathematicians by...nothing. It's absolutely nothing.
If we can analyze larger primes, we can generate larger primes which has applications in math, particularly cryptography and other areas, not even beginning to look at number theory. Specifically being able to verify them over a cloud is useful, we can generate them quicker and worry about their safety less. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hensel's_lemma has uses in physics actually.
Oh, you mean you don't understand it, gotcha.
Yes, and Bayesian statistics are useless too, they're all about things that have already happened!
No. I understand it plenty. Quantifying shit to the Nth degree doesn't fix anything. It makes math more precise, but math that will never be used for any practical applications.
Please inform me about the ways this information and "breakthrough" will be used in a meaningful way that matters at all.
Ummmmm….. what?