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Incredible stochastic algorithm, gets more reliable the larger your input, incredibly fast, trivial to implement and deterministic on its inputs (lemmy.ml)

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[–] 418_im_a_teapot@sh.itjust.works 4 points 4 hours ago

We could probably improve on that significantly without losing speed.

return $x < 8

That should yield one additional correct answer, while also confusing anyone who thinks it just returns false.

And if we just hard coded and checked the first 20 or so primes before always returning false, we would probably get noticeable improvement (depending on the total range).