In fact, it’s not random, it’s a kind of pseudo-random number.
But they don’t just use any random number. PRN (“Psuedo Random Noise”) sequences are used as part of the CDMA scheme in GPS. The GPS PRN (Gold Codes) natronics on GitHub The GPS PRN (Gold Codes) – September 2014 The GPS PRN (Gold Codes)įirst read the previous post about the basics of GPS encoding.