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Re: [korgpolyex] 256 random numbers

2008-12-28 by Atom Smasher

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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