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amenghra on Aug 23, 2023 | parent | context | favorite | on: My favorite prime number generator

Correct. It will almost never produce an even number, so there's already one bit of entropy lost. It will also never produce lots of other numbers.

nemo8551 on Aug 24, 2023 [–]

Thanks all, I hadn’t considered that but we do only use it for silly things and nothing work related but it’s worth a consideration.

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