Merge pull request #1058 from ralexstokes/add-merkleize-clarity
Add clarity around merkleize on a single chunk
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We first define helper functions:
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* `pack`: Given ordered objects of the same basic type, serialize them, pack them into `BYTES_PER_CHUNK`-byte chunks, right-pad the last chunk with zero bytes, and return the chunks.
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* `merkleize`: Given ordered `BYTES_PER_CHUNK`-byte chunks, if necessary append zero chunks so that the number of chunks is a power of two, Merkleize the chunks, and return the root.
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* `merkleize`: Given ordered `BYTES_PER_CHUNK`-byte chunks, if necessary append zero chunks so that the number of chunks is a power of two, Merkleize the chunks, and return the root. Note that `merkleize` on a single chunk is simply that chunk, i.e. the identity when the number of chunks is one.
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* `mix_in_length`: Given a Merkle root `root` and a length `length` (`"uint256"` little-endian serialization) return `hash(root + length)`.
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We now define Merkleization `hash_tree_root(value)` of an object `value` recursively:
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