OpenEuphoria

Re: Suggestion for 2.4+: Mersenne Twister

• Posted by rforno at tutopia.com Sep 12, 2001
• 497 views

Rod, would you explain the Mersenne Twister algorithm?
Thanks.
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Rod Jackson" <rodjackson_x at hotmail.com>
To: "EUforum" <EUforum at topica.com>
Subject: Suggestion for 2.4+: Mersenne Twister


> 
> 
> Hi all,
> 
> Here's an idea I want to toss out, to
> Rob for future versions of Euphoria:
> 
> While Eu's pseudorandom algorithm is
> adequate for most purposes, I've found
> a good deal of "pattern" in the results
> when used "en masse".
> 
> I would suggest that Rob switch to
> using the Mersenne Twister; it has
> numerous advantages over most other
> algorithms. I would make use of it in
> IGT myself, with the Euphoria translation
> of MT, but an interpreted algorithm
> appears to be too slow.
> 
> Downside: it could break code. But then
> hopefully any software that *depends*
> on rand() for consistency would have
> taken into account the idea that the
> random-number generator could change.
> 
> Rod Jackson
> 
> 
>