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bombcar • today at 11:44 AM • 1 reply • view on HN

Isn't 4 simply 2 bits?

Silly 2-bit outfit.

Maybe it's 3 bits.


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patrickthebold • today at 11:53 AM

I think the way that the bits are counted is based on the pool from which the number was randomly drawn. So it's possible they had 256 bits of entropy but got really unlucky.