Tony Smith <piclist@mit.edu> wrote:

> The problem with the rotate & carry routines is they repeat, eg after 65k
> operations (16 bit register).

Tony:

That property is hardly unique to LFSRs.  Since pseudo-random number 
generators are deterministic algorithms run on deterministic machines 
with finite memory, they ALL repeat. 

-Andrew

=== Andrew Warren - fastfwd@ix.netcom.com

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