clipka <nomail@nomail> wrote:
> Mathematically speaking, the "MOD 1.0" operation - when applied to floats - is
> *exactly* what the fraction operation does.

> However, there is indeed a significant difference between an LCG and your
> algorithm, in that an LCG operates in the integer domain, and thus its values
> can never "grow fractional digits".

  That would make a difference if floats with unlimited precision were
used. However, since regular floats are used, only a fixed amount of bits
are dedicated to the actual value (in the case of double-precision floating
point numbers, 53 bits). Thus it sounds pretty much like a LCG to me.

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