] "Consider the work that went into cracking a secret code
] developed by Toronto-based Certicom Corp. (Toronto:CIC.TO
] - news), which makes wireless encryption software.
] It took the power of 10,000 computers running around the
] clock for 549 days, coupled with the brain power of a
] mathematician at Indiana's University of Notre Dame, to
] complete one of the world's largest single math
] computations. "

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