Comment by AxelBoldt on 14/12/2023 at 21:35 UTC

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There wouldn't be any real-world repercussions, except for the 1-Million-Dollar prize.

Essentially, the Riemann hypothesis gives precise information about the distribution of the prime numbers, which is very useful in number theory. You see lots of theorems in number theory of the form "If the Riemann hypothesis is true, then ...". All these would turn into unconditional theorems overnight.

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