Jeroen Demeyer <j.deme...@ugent.be> added the comment:
> I don't know that primes are important here, but neither do I know that > they're _not_ important here. Hashes are effectively computed modulo 2**N. "Primes" are meaningless in that setting (except for the prime 2 which does have a meaning). For example, 1000003 is prime but 1000003 + 2**64 is not. But these represent the same number modulo 2**64. Also, multiplication by any odd number is a permutation modulo 2**N, so every odd number is invertible. ---------- _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <https://bugs.python.org/issue34751> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: https://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com
