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@ -120,6 +120,7 @@ use to pick that number does not matter as long as it is not predictable
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or repeatable. Bitcoin software uses cryptographically secure random
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number generators to produce 256 bits of entropy.
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[role="less_space pagebreak-before"]
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More precisely, the private key can be any number between 0 and _n_ -
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1 inclusive, where _n_ is a constant (_n_ = 1.1578 × 10^77^, slightly less
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than 2^256^) defined as the order of the elliptic curve used in Bitcoin
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@ -170,7 +171,7 @@ curve.
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by Bitcoin.
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[[ecc-curve]]
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.An elliptic curve
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image::images/mbc3_0402.png["ecc-curve"]
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