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| From | Tim Rentsch <tr.17687@z991.linuxsc.com> |
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| Subject | Re: srand(0) |
| Date | Wed, 07 Jan 2026 07:50:09 -0800 |
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antispam@fricas.org (Waldek Hebisch) writes: [...] > There is a paper "PCG: A Family of Simple Fast Space-Efficient > Statistically Good Algorithms for Random Number Generation" > by M. O?Neill where she gives a family of algorithms and runs > several statistical tests against known algorithms. Mersenne > Twister does not look good in tests. If you have enough (128) bits > LCGs do pass tests. A bunch of generators with 64-bit state also > passes tests. So the only reason to prefer Mersenne Twister is > that it is implemented in available libraries. Otherwise it is > not so good, have large state and needs more execution time > than alternatives. Interesting paper. Thank you.
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