Owen Densmore wrote:
Most of computing does not need to be exact .. a slight "error"
generally is not terrible and for imaging, audio, and so on simply is
not observable by a human.
And if what you need is a *lot* of random numbers [1], why do dozens of
cycles of exact arithmetic and memory lookups to make pseudo random
numbers, if you could instead just read a vector of physical noise
values from a CPU I/O port in a single cycle?
[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monte_Carlo_method
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