Re: [linux-audio-dev] ANN: libgdither 0.6

On Tue, Jul 26, 2005 at 09:45:45AM +0100, Steve Harris wrote:

> Yes, note that its not much good as a random number generator as
> its easily predictable,

All 'psuedoramdom' generators are predictable, that doesn't make
them less 'good', except for cryptographic applications.

> but in this case all thats required is that it
> produces noise that is approximatly white (ie. equal energy in each
> frequency band), and its efficient.

It's a perfectly good choice for this application. Its only problem
is when you use it to generate random *bits*. Witm m = 2^N, the
lower n bits will form of cycle of lenght 2^n, so e.g. the LS bit is
just altermating 0,1,0,1,0,1 -- not very random.

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FA