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@ -120,6 +120,7 @@ use to pick that number does not matter as long as it is not predictable
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_ -
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
@ -170,7 +171,7 @@ curve.
by Bitcoin.
[[ecc-curve]]
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.An elliptic curve
image::images/mbc3_0402.png["ecc-curve"]