Re: generate white noise in assembly

Andor wrote:

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> It makes sense only to return the higher bits. It can be shown that
> each bit in a sequence of LC PRNs has a period of at most 2^(bit
> position+1), eg. the LSB has a period of at most 2. I learned that the
> hard way :-).

It's one of thos things that's obvious only after it's seen. The bottom 
n bits taken as a whole can have at most 2^n values. There is one 
relatively good PRNG in which the LSB alternates between 0 and 1. (The 
returned values alternate odd and even.)

Jerry
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