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@ -121,7 +121,7 @@ or repeatable. Bitcoin software uses cryptographically secure random
number generators to produce 256 bits of entropy.
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More precisely, the private key can be any number between 0 and _n_ -
More precisely, the private key can be any number between 1 and _n_ -
1 inclusive, where _n_ is a constant (_n_ = 1.1578 × 10^77^, slightly less
than 2^256^) defined as the order of the elliptic curve used in Bitcoin
(see <<elliptic_curve>>). To create such a key, we randomly pick a