Mersenne Twister
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mersenne-twister-190-669152
title:
Mersenne Twister
text:
Makoto Matsumoto The Mersenne Twister is a general-purpose pseudorandom number generator (PRNG) developed in 1997 by Makoto Matsumoto and Takuji Nishimura. Its name derives from the choice of a Mersenne prime as its period length. The Mersenne Twister was designed specifically to rectify most of the flaws found in older PRNGs. The most commonly used version of the Mersenne Twister algorithm is based on the Mersenne prime 2 19937 − 1. The standard implementation of that, MT19937, uses a 32-bit wo
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Pseudorandom number generator
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mersenne_Twister
date created:
2002-03-22T21:34:25Z
date modified:
2024-09-09T16:04:16Z
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