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Why hasis 2048 been chosen as athe mining difficulty bound divisor?

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Why has 2048 been chosen as a mining difficulty bound divisor?

Excerpt from page 6 of the yellow paper:

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The paper focuses more on the difficulty bomb ε but says little about the rationale of mandating 131072 and 2048 as scalars. I guess the former is merely an arbitrary value, but I'm not sure about the other. Is it because with a smaller difficulty the incentives wouldn't work?