Re: [cc65] offtopic: random numbers in c64

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From: Marko Mäkelä (marko.makela_at_hut.fi)
Date: 2003-06-27 13:23:44 

On Thu, Jun 26, 2003 at 04:56:50PM +0200, Stephan Lesch wrote:
> Can someone explain how the noise is generated?

It's a 23-bit linear feedback shift register.  I and Asger Alstrup developed
programs for systematically sampling the values (with a REU or a
16-cycles-per-iteration loop) and Asger found the formula in 1994.

	Marko
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