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by hinkley 811 days ago
It’s been a long long time. I may be remembering the ratio wrong, or we might have been clipping the range a bit.
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> or we might have been clipping the range a bit

Well it's a pretty abrupt change. 53 bits work fine, at 54 bits a quarter of numbers get truncated, at 55 it's half.