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o(1) statistical prime approximation (infosec.pub)

submitted 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago) by not_IO@lemmy.blahaj.zone to c/programmer_humor@programming.dev

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[–] JustARegularNerd@lemmy.dbzer0.com 11 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Oh I'm with you, the tests are precalculated and expect a true to return on something like 99991, this function as expected returns false, which throws the test into a fail.

Thank you for that explanation

[–] Agent641@lemmy.world 3 points 4 days ago

And the natural distribution of primes gets smaller as integer length increases