>well, 1,3,7,15,31 is (2^n)-1, though the rest of the pattern seems irregular.
>any ideas?
Sounds something like a shift-register (with XOR taps) pseudo-random generator.
They always generate the same sequence, which never contains zero. (Zero would
cause the sequence to get "stuck".) The maxi
Peter Ravn wrote,
| I have just observed that the shuffle repeat track order is always the same
| on the same disc!
Try it on a different disc with the same number of tracks. I had a Sony
portable CD player (E33 maybe?) like that: for any given total number of
tracks it would always use the sa
I bet quite a few of us would have seen that as setting the
next msb bit even as they read the email first time. Or is
it only us peeps whose early programming days included some
machine language (in my case the ancient Z80) who can still
think in binary/hex almost as easily as decimal?
Do I ne
I think it's pretty amazing that you picked up on that sequence...
Dan
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From: Peter Jaques <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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Subject: Re: MD: Shuffle on G750
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> well, 1,3,7,15,31 is (2^n)-1,
well, 1,3,7,15,31 is (2^n)-1, though the rest of the pattern seems irregular.
any ideas?
peter
On 27 Mar 01, 1:30PM, Peter Ravn wrote:
> I have tried with a disc with 58 tracks the order was always 1, 3, 7, 15,
> 31, 42, 41, 38, 25... and even if I first hear track 3 then the order
> will be t
