Should standardize the sampling rate as well. With an infinite sampling rate 
and your method, you'd have something like a pure broadband "tone", right?

> On May 7, 2014, at 5:39 PM, Sampo Syreeni <de...@iki.fi> wrote:
> 
> This is going to sound pretty weird, I'm sure, but could as many people 
> on-list perform the following experiment on themselves and their close ones, 
> as possible? Then report back (privately, so as not to ruin the surprise for 
> everybody else?)
> 
> Take a long (at least 30 seconds and possibly more) sequence of truly random 
> (AWGN) noise, either from a very long period PRNG or from a primary 
> randomness source. Then starting with very long periods of over 10 seconds, 
> loop the noise, curtailing the period of repetition. Dropping it, say, 200ms 
> at a time at first, and in the end perhaps something like 10ms at a time. 
> When does your ear, perceptually speaking, start to say that the noise 
> repeats? Precisely?
> 
> I'd be interested in hearing what people on-list have to say about this one. 
> Especially the ones who are curious enough to find the precise limit in 
> milliseconds, and even subject their loved ones to the test.
> 
> Because, I mean, at least for me this was a total mindfuck, and if you 
> analyze it e.g. via the usual LTI theory of human hearing, the results do not 
> make any sense at all. I think, but I'm not too sure. Whence the question. ;)
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