why ethereum.utils.privtoaddr(priv) generates an address

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so i was looking at this script ethercheck

and i gave it a private key...some crap i came out with

FFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFEBAAEDCE6AF48A03BBFD25E8CD0364144

and to my surprize it came out with and address

0x6813eb9362372eef6200f3b1dbc3f819671cba69

everything else seems to work fine. any ideea on why it works with this?

no address at all, an error

LE: so my question is why does it generate and actual address if the private key is invalid?

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