I'm curious how one would go about transferring a very large number such as the current largest prime number across the internet. Google was useless for this question, ChatGPT recommended breaking it up and using sftp which also seems not quite right. Does anyone know how this would be accomplished and/or what required hardware would be necessary?
Like qbrass already pointed out, the largest prime number isn't "very large" by file standards - it'd be about 10 megabytes.
If you can compute with the number, you can send whatever shape you keep it in to compute.
OTOH, actual "very large numbers" like Graham's number can't be computed with meaningfully - writing down even one of the _earlier_ terms in that sequence would need more digits than there are Planck volumes in the universe.
The largest known prime number (as of February 2023) is 2^82,589,933 − 1
Like that, I guess.