Raymond Hettinger <rhettin...@users.sourceforge.net> added the comment:

Guys, let's be careful.  Make sure that efforts to randomize lower bits
don't destroy information.   Something like x |= x>>8 is reversible and
fast.  Other fun looking transformations are not:

    >>> len(set((x >> 4) + (x & 15) for x in range(10**6)))
    62515

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