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Chapter 11: Page 373 Morris counters #13

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OncologyDS opened this issue Jan 19, 2023 · 0 comments
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Chapter 11: Page 373 Morris counters #13

OncologyDS opened this issue Jan 19, 2023 · 0 comments

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The book states: "The maximum we could approximately count where we use a single unsigned byte
for the exponent is math.pow(2,255) == 5e76". The actual value is 5.79 x 10^76, so it should be rounded to 6. This might be intentional as the counters are approximate but I thought I'd bring it up!

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