Author: Russell O'Connor 2017-05-22 22:32:38
Published on: 2017-05-22T22:32:38+00:00
In an email exchange dated May 22, 2017, Peter Todd and Russell O'Connor discussed the math operations used in Bitcoin’s MerkleRoot function. O’Connor asked for clarification on the symbols “⋅” and “×”, to which Todd explained that he usually uses “⋅” to represent concatenation and “×” to represent the Cartesian product. The discussion was related to the technical details of Bitcoin’s cryptography.
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