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@ -632,7 +632,7 @@ The second advantage of HD wallets is that users can create a sequence of public
===== HD wallet creation from a seed
HD wallets are created from a single _root seed_, which is a 128-, 256- or 512-bit random number. Everything else in the HD wallet is deterministically derived from this root seed, which makes it possible to re-create the entire HD wallet from that seed in any compatible HD wallet. This makes it easy to back up, restore, export, and import HD wallets containing thousands or even millions of keys by simply transferring only the root seed. The root seed is most often represented by a _mnemonic word sequence_, as described in the previous section <<mnemonic_code_words>>, to make it easier for people to transcribe and store it.
HD wallets are created from a single _root seed_, which is a 128-, 256-, or 512-bit random number. Everything else in the HD wallet is deterministically derived from this root seed, which makes it possible to re-create the entire HD wallet from that seed in any compatible HD wallet. This makes it easy to back up, restore, export, and import HD wallets containing thousands or even millions of keys by simply transferring only the root seed. The root seed is most often represented by a _mnemonic word sequence_, as described in the previous section <<mnemonic_code_words>>, to make it easier for people to transcribe and store it.
The process of creating the master keys and master chain code for an HD wallet is shown in <<HDWalletFromSeed>>.