Comment by vanderZwan
5 years ago
I'll be honest, that is a bit terse for a lay-person like me, but the links hopefully give enough pointers to properly grok what you said with a bit of reading. Thank you!
5 years ago
I'll be honest, that is a bit terse for a lay-person like me, but the links hopefully give enough pointers to properly grok what you said with a bit of reading. Thank you!
Note: in the software world, the equivalent construction to the LFSR with "fat" polynomial is the xorshift PRNG. For more details, see the book: Numerical Recipes, 3rd edition (not 2nd ed!), Chapter 7 random numbers, section 7.1 uniform RNG - history.