Also I’ve found that while most people (non-tech) don’t have a concept of XOR, they probably took basic algebra and understand 1+?=3
Arithmetic wouldn’t be a good implementation due to integer overflow (a problem XOR doesn’t have) but it’s helpful if you ever have to explain it to the less technical business person who you need to sign off on the purchasing decision.
that's how i used to explain what a nonce was to explain what all the computers were doing to "mine" bitcoin. and then explain "they're instead trying to get a number that has a certain number of zeros in a specific place"
Arithmetic wouldn’t be a good implementation due to integer overflow (a problem XOR doesn’t have) but it’s helpful if you ever have to explain it to the less technical business person who you need to sign off on the purchasing decision.