Word: multidigit
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...move to dump the Zimbabwe dollar has also stemmed the country's runaway inflation. This week the government announced that prices were 0.8% lower in January after years of multidigit increases. The last official measure of inflation, in July last year, put it at 231 million percent. (See pictures of money being printed...
...triumphant after solving a problem that has been around more than three centuries." Some may not share in the jubilation, especially if they are dependent on a widely used cryptographic system thought to be uncrackable. Known as RSA (the initials of its three inventors), it employs difficult-to-factor multidigit numbers to encode secrets and keep them secure. These include electronic funds transfers and military messages. By factoring the numbers, the codes can be broken. When RSA was first proposed, its inventors suggested using 80-digit numbers on the assumption that they were too big to be factored. Obviously, with...
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