In Case You Have $100,000.00 Laying Around...

Hmmm. For some reason the link isn't working for me.

Go to: www.ebay.com

Copy paste this number into the Ebay search box. 5533921662

I would seriously question whoever buys those formulas.

I wouldn't! I mean, it's nothing you could hang on the wall, or in your closet, is it?

The item has been relisted at a mere 3% of its original price tag. (Ebay item 5539121958)

Somebody's bid on it too.

It that a serious listing? If it is, could someone explain me the significance?

prolly real. people sell celebrity gum, chewed of course, and people buy it. gross.

This is not outside the real of the possible. Certain mathematical formula are considered munitions (like those need to build an atomic bomb) and are classified. Mathematicians working in certain areas of number theory have found their papers classified despite their protest because their work can be used to encrypt, or break the encryption of information. I can see where these formula offered on Ebay might have economic value. It is also a pig in a poke.

lol the guy has zero feedback - he's never going to pay the listing fee

Obviously, I am not mathmatically inclined, but from the description could one figure out what the formula is and how it might apply to something commercial? If not, why bid? Seems pretty chancey. Then again, the price makes it SEEM like the seller has a grasp of it's commercial value... Which begs the question, why doesn't he do something with it?

It seems to have been removed from ebay quicker than a grilled cheese sandwich. Can someone clue me in?

Perhaps they form an image of the Virgin Mary when looked at in the right angle and light.

There is one formula I would easily pay $100,000.00 for.

Almost all of the encryption algorithms used today are based on the fact that it is computationally difficult to find prime factors of large numbers.

Find a quick way to factor big numbers, and all of the codes used on computers to keep secrets secrets... by banks, by governments by criminals and terrorists would be easy to read.

That's gotta be worth more than 100,000.