[PD] noise~ inlet?
Mathieu Bouchard
matju at artengine.ca
Sun May 30 21:30:25 CEST 2010
On Sun, 30 May 2010, Mathieu Bouchard wrote:
> then I don't recall why val=val*a+b would always loop after a power of two
> iterations (I know it for b=0), but in this case, it says that pow(2,30)
> iterations are like val=val, and if there were any smaller number for that,
> it would be a divisor of pow(2,30), so, we would know from this list anyway.
even though val loops after pow(2,30) iterations, all the output of
[noise~] uses (val & 0x7fffffff) instead of val, which effectively cuts
the loop to pow(2,29) iterations :
i=29 a=1 b=-2147483648
because -2147483648 & 0x7fffffff == 0
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