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Re: MT19937 updated 2 September 2002
- From: Brian Gough <bjg at network-theory dot co dot uk>
- To: Martin Thorsen Ranang <mtr at ranang dot org>
- Cc: gsl-discuss at sources dot redhat dot com
- Date: Tue, 7 May 2002 22:27:45 +0100 (BST)
- Subject: Re: MT19937 updated 2 September 2002
- References: <3d1g015m6ei.fsf@sule05.idi.ntnu.no>
Martin Thorsen Ranang writes:
> Now, I was wondering if there are any plans to include the updates
> of the Mersenne Twister (MT) 19937 implementation, announced by
> Makoto Matsumoto on the MT home page
> (<URL:http://www.math.keio.ac.jp/~matumoto/emt.html>)? The
> readme-file states that "the initialization scheme for the previous
> versions of MT (e.g. 1999/10/28 version or earlier) has a tiny
> problem, that the most significant bits of the seed is not well
> reflected to the state vector of MT."
Thanks, I hadn't seen that. We have the updated seeding procedure
from last year, but not this one. I'll add the new seeding and retain
the old versions under a different name.
regards
Brian Gough