[mercury-users] random.m: little warning

Richard A. O'Keefe ok at atlas.otago.ac.nz
Fri Oct 16 05:44:27 AEST 1998


	Martin Stein <ms40 at inf.tu-dresden.de> wrote:
	> Anyway, are you interested in a hopefully better generator?

	Fergus	Henderson wrote
	Yes, certainly.
	
I've sent Fergus a copy of MT19937, the "Mersenne Twister" of Matsumoto
& Nishimura, described in ACM Tr.MCS Jan 1998.  It looks pretty good.
However, the code is in C.

It would actually be useful to have several pseudo-random generators in
the Mercury library; switching from one to another _may_ reveal a flaw.




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