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Comment by darusnna

5 years ago

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.

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