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If you factor the following 174-digit number, affectionality known as
``RSA-576'', then the RSA company will give you TEN THOUSAND DOLLARS!!!
18819881292060796383869723946165043980716356337941738270076335
64229888597152346654853190606065047430453173880113033967161996
92321205734031879550656996221305168759307650257059
This number is called RSA-576, since it has 576 binary digits.
See
http://www.rsasecurity.com/rsalabs/challenges/factoring/index.html
for more details.
William A Stein
2001-09-14