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by kevin_thibedeau 536 days ago
Incrementing a bignum is faster than another PRNG cycle.
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Neither is a significant amount of the time required to reject a candidate factor. The cheapest rejection test is "Bignum Division by 3" and something like 2/3 candidates will need more expensive further tests.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40093136