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[Dave Long]

>> I first ran into them for planetary missions.  An LFSR has a -0
>> autocorrelation everywhere but within half-a-bit of synchronized, and
>> which point it ramps up to a huge autocorrelation when exactly
>> synchronized.
>
> That's interesting.  True of all LFSRs, or just maximal ones?  And by
> "-0" do you mean "roughly zero" (true of approximately all
> pseudorandom sequences) or "exactly 0"?

Because the output of the minimal LFSR (0->0->0...) always has maximal 
positive autocorrelation, waving my hands wildly I'd think it should be 
true of only maximal LFSRs.
"-0" meant negative but very small -- the longer the period, the 
smaller it gets.

-Dave

> (By the way, may I forward your response to kragen-discuss, or did you
> send it privately on purpose?)

fat-finger fault; forwarding forthwith...