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Comment by idealmedtech

4 years ago

Perhaps they mean continuous or differentiable functions (evident by the desire to put an order on the elements)

edit: was wrong about sha256

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bawolff  4 years ago

sha256() doesn't involve state or decision making.

dandanua  4 years ago

That's right, the paper has practical estimates of convergence only for continuous functions (kind of). For hash functions this coefficient is useless.

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