Heracles' ninth labor: factor this 300-digit number
NathanpmYoung · x · 2026-09-06
A forwarded joke: King Eurystheus tasks Heracles with his ninth labor — finding the prime factors of a 300-digit number. The punchline leans on the computational infeasibility of large-integer factoring (the basis of RSA), swapping a mythological impossible task for a cryptographic one.
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