Jeroen Demeyer <j.deme...@ugent.be> added the comment:
> the author wants this transformation to be easily invertible, so a prime is > necessary A multiplication by any odd number modulo 2**64 is invertible. As I argued before, the concept of primes is meaningless (except for the prime 2) when computing modulo 2**64. ---------- _______________________________________ 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
