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> I'm pretty sure that when you generate a prime you're using the Miller–Rabin primality test in which case you only probabilistically choose a prime.

Why would somebody use MR when there are faster sieves already running, as well as additional public lists of known large primes?

Maybe they shouldn't be near primes, let alone picking them.




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