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02/20/10 15:48
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#173363 - World's most unreadable clock?
Responding to: ???'s previous message
Chico Magalhães said:
That's it Andy!!

I see!

It's an interesting gimmick - but I find it hard to think of a worse way to come up with an unreadable display!
But I guess that's not the point...?!

So, you mean to repeat a random until find sum of "ones" is equal the number I want?

I guess you could do that.

Also, the number is a 9bit number, because there are 9 LEDs,

A guess you could say that, but I'm not sure if it's really helpful - just think of it as a 9-bit pattern with no particular numeric significance.
A bit like the pattern of bits used to drive the segments of a 7-segment display doesn't really have any particular numeric significance in itself.

never seen (so far) a code to generate 9bit random number

Of course you have - it's just a "random" (sic?) number generator with a range of 0-511!!


or do you mean ramdomizing each bit sequencially counting the "ones"?


Yes, that was more the kind of thing I had in mind!

Might also be worh thinking about lookup tables...?

List of 7 messages in thread
TopicAuthorDate
"binary" clock            01/01/70 00:00      
   You mean one of these? (should be a doddle)            01/01/70 00:00      
      No... not this one            01/01/70 00:00      
   Oh, I see - that's not "binary" at all!            01/01/70 00:00      
      Yes! Thats it!            01/01/70 00:00      
         World's most unreadable clock?            01/01/70 00:00      
            random permutations            01/01/70 00:00      

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