<j​effro256:monero.social> Same with multiplying integers by 0

<j​effro256:monero.social> Or XOR'ing things with themselves

<j​effro256:monero.social> Or OR'ing by 1

<j​effro256:monero.social> You definitely want to avoid any operations which have non-closed "attractors" loops: values which are the result of an operation on operands which are different from the attractor, but for which successive applications of the operation converge of a small range of values which discludes the original operands

<j​effro256:monero.social> That's another way that entropy goes down, even without going to 0

<j​effro256:monero.social> As a sort of contrived example, take the function f(x) = x + (p - x) / 100, where p is the closest prime to x

<j​effro256:monero.social> Successive applications of f(x) to the hashstate would cause the hashstate to converge on a small finite number of possible values (the primes), even given diverse inputs