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   Kerr-Mudd,John to All   
   Re: Reciprocal MUL LUT   
   27 Apr 18 08:25:56   
   
   From: notsaying@nospicedham.invalid.org   
      
   On Wed, 25 Apr 2018 22:01:21 GMT, "wolfgang kern"    
   wrote:   
      
   >   
   > Terje asked:   
   >   
   >>>> Interesting ideas, I've got to ask though, what is the   
   >>>> need/intention here?   
   >   
   []   
   >> Again, what is it used for?   
   >   
   > as mentioned above: "some of my clients want such LUTs" to speed up   
   > calc. I dont care "why" as long as I'm paid for it :)   
   > what they rearly do with it is a bit beyond my understanding of math,   
   > but you may know: always fulfill client demands or risk to loose em.   
      
   Looks like an encryption method:   
      
   https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BLAKE_(hash_function)#BLAKE2   
      
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