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From: Todd Veldhuizen (tveldhui_at_[hidden])
Date: 1998-07-28 12:13:06
> Also, I noticed that psuedo-random number generation was up for grabs on
> the todo list. Do you know about the new Mersenne Twister algorithm. It's
> very fast and high quality. More info at
> http://www.math.keio.ac.jp/~matumoto/emt.html. If you'd like I could give
> a crack at making an Array implementation of this in the coming month.
Cool. Blitz++ currently has a rng based on TT800, a predecessor of
the "mersenne twister" thingmy (blitz/rand-tt800.h). If you wanted
to implement the mersenne twister that would be great. The
TT800 generator is a bit flakey and not really suitable for
use.
More on DECcxx later.
Cheers,
Todd