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Author mark.dickinson
Recipients Rhamphoryncus, mark.dickinson
Date 2010-03-20.22:45:57
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No, I mean 61.  2**61 - 1 is prime;  2**63-1 is not.  (So 2 bits of the hash get wasted, but that's not a big deal, especially since they're the high-end bits and Python mostly cares about the lower-order bits.)
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