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by Findecanor 1141 days ago
No, you take the highest bits. The product is a fixed-point real fraction. The integer part has overflowed out of the machine word. 0..(2**64-1) represents 0.0<=x<1.0 Picking the n highest bits is like multiplying with 2**n and using the integer result.