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And with 077213 and 012345 octal that is what happens. That's why the distribution was so uniform when Ken checked.
by mzs 10y ago
And with 077213 and 012345 octal that is what happens. That's why the distribution was so uniform when Ken checked.
- userbinator 10y agohttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linear-feedback_shift_register#Uses_in_circuit_testing https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linear-feedback_shift_register... I suspect it was deliberately chosen to do this for the purposes of testing the disk; the sequence is random-looking so it exercises all the bits, but is also deterministic so that written data can be verified by reading it back and comparing without having to store a copy of all the written data somewhere else.