[PD] noise~ inlet?

[Mathieu Bouchard]

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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