>>>>>> thus on Thu, 9 Jul 1998 17:00:27 -0400, George wrote:
> On Thu, 9 Jul 1998, Chris Jacobson wrote:
>> A perfect replacement for circle_random()
>>
>> Straight off of Slashdot.Org announcement:
>> Mersenne Twister - a fast random number generator. Uses no
>> multiplication or division!
> The current one is nowhere near broken.
Considering Knuth's stamp of approval, and the purpose of Jeremy's original
intent for his random() inclusion, Chris provides a good argument. A
portable pseudo-random number generator that makes up for poor random that
comes natively with some distributions (ones that only alternate the higher
order bits).
It's hard to argue against a PRNG that has a period of 2^19937-1 with
tight, fast code generation.
d.
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