Re: Proposed solution to the "predetermined states" problem
Peter McGoron 23 May 2026 13:43 UTC
On 5/23/26 00:50, Shiro Kawai wrote:
>
> It appears that the implementation that produced the output you showed
> doesn't run "warmup" cycles during initialization---does it?
> Scrambled linear PNG needs to discard several dozen initial values
> to reach the state where the number of 1's and 0's are approximately the
> same
> in the state [1]. Otoh, I think once it is warmed up, any seed (except
> all 0's)
> produces the same quality of sequence.
You're right. (I just copied the xoshiro256++ code into a C file). An
implementer might make the same mistake I did, however.
-- Peter McGoron
