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finding a hash that is less than the target becomes more and more
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difficult.
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<p class="fix_tracking">
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To give a simple analogy, imagine a game where players throw a pair of
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dice repeatedly, trying to throw less than a specified target. In the
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first round, the target is 12. Unless you throw double-six, you win. In
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the lower the target gets. Eventually, when the target is 3 (the minimum
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possible), only one throw out of every 36, or about 3% of them, will produce a
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winning result.
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</p>
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From the perspective of an observer who knows that the target of the
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dice game is 3, if someone has succeeded in casting a winning throw it
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