On Mon, May 22, 2017 at 06:32:38PM -0400, Russell O'Connor wrote:
> On May 22, 2017 23:05, "Peter Todd" <pete@petertodd.org> wrote:
> 
> On Mon, May 22, 2017 at 03:05:49AM -0400, Russell O'Connor via bitcoin-dev
> wrote:
> >     MerkleRoot := SHA256(SHA256(LeftRoot ⋅ RightRoot))
> >     sha256Compress : Word256 × Word512 -> Word256
> 
> To be clear, what math operations do you mean by "⋅" and "×"?
> 
> 
> By "⋅", I usually mean concatenation (though I also use it for function
> composition in one instance).   By "×", I mean the Cartesian product.

Cartesian product can mean a lot of things.

What specifically do you mean by "cartesian product" here?

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