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And of course, they skip over the only part I don't understand about that hack. The real meat and potatoes, the magic number.

Heh, yeah. I believe Chris Lomonts paper talks about how it was derived (at least, he derives a new one, so I guess he must have figured it out - it went over my head though)

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