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See monome/teletype#337
The use of a constant to initialize
z
meant the first random values aren't sufficiently different for similar seeds. I'm not very handy with C, so a Python script was easier to demonstrate:returns
The values aren't exactly the same, but are similar. This effect disappears on further iterations of the initial seed. In specific situations like
PN.RND
where we take the mod of the random value this manifests as the same value each time on the first call. For ops likeRAND 10000
the initial values were different on reseeding, but tended to be clustered.Updating to the change in this PR:
and re-running we get the values
Built firmware and tested in Teletype hardware.