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[-] kogasa@programming.dev 14 points 10 months ago

Per the prime number theorem, for large enough N the proportion of primes less than or equal to N is approximately 1/log(N). For N = 2^(31) that's ~0.0465. To get under 1% you'd need N ~ 2^(145).

[-] sukhmel@programming.dev 4 points 10 months ago

So you better use 128-bit unsigned integers ๐Ÿ˜…

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