On Sun, 28 Dec 2008, Gordon JC Pearce MM3YEQ wrote:
> You could squeeze a good pseudo-random number generator into 256 bytes.
> Is there a reason why you want a lookup table?
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the CPU doesn't have a good way of generating random numbers... it takes
several clock cycles (6? 8?) to generate a single random value and, IIRC,
that's with a not-so-great period or quality.
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