Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 10 Apr 2012 15:39:53 -0700 | From | "H. Peter Anvin" <> | Subject | Re: + syscalls-x86-add-__nr_kcmp-syscall-v8.patch added to -mm tree |
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On 04/10/2012 03:37 PM, Cyrill Gorcunov wrote: > + * bits even more (the oddity is important here, it allow > + * us to have meaningful production even if multiplicants > + * are big numbers).
I would be more clear:
"the odd multiplier guarantees that the product is unique ever after the high bits are truncated, since any odd number is relative prime to 2^n".
-hpa
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