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--- base:ax_tinyrand8 [2021-11-27 23:53] – created wil
+++ base:ax_tinyrand8 [2021-11-28 03:25] – seeding function further explained wil
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 This version stores the seed as arguments and uses self-modifying code and requires only 15 bytes for the random function. The execution time is constant at 18 cycles and much faster than for example a 789-Xorshift.
-The seeding function was tricky, since putting any two values into b1 and c1 comes with a 10% risk of ending up in a cycle with shorter period. Therefore, a seeding function is provided that takes an 8 bit values and generates a seed that is guaranteed to be in cycle with a period of 59748.
+The seeding function was tricky, since putting any two values into b1 and c1 comes with a 10% risk of ending up in a cycle with shorter period. Therefore, a seeding function is provided that takes an 8 bit values and generates a seed that is guaranteed to be in cycle with a period of 59748. However, there are only 64 different states reachable after seeding.
+In a test, I plotted the output of 51200 random values, which don't seem to reveal any visible patterns:
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