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Author jdemeyer
Recipients eric.smith, jdemeyer, mark.dickinson, rhettinger, sir-sigurd, tim.peters
Date 2018-10-02.10:03:15
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> 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.
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