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f) Used a machine with bad RAM that flipped a bit.

This case could actually be tested for - see if any of the one-bit differences from the number used are prime.




A bit could have been flipped in the software or the result of the function (true/false), but in the number itself there appear to be no single bit flips that make it prime (at least in the binary representation).

Edit: A single bit flip could have been used as "semi" plausible deniability in the case of malicious intent.




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