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cobbzilla
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slazaro
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Going from 32 bits to 64 bits doesn't double the range (that would be adding 1 bit), it squares the range.
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mplanchard
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I don’t think so, because that only gets you up to 2x2^32, which is nowhere near halfway to 2^64
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jlarocco
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No. 50% of them are the product of 2 and a 63-bit integer.
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