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It's not clear to me what xN means, where X is some number > 2 at leat in the context of the plotted elliptical curve. I've looked for this repeatedly, and I've never seen it drawn, ever.

It's also not clear to me why multiplication has the associative property - that is x(yN) == y(xN).

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