From: Robert Feldt <feldt@...>
Date: 2001-11-28T20:51:53+09:00
Subject: [ruby-talk:26771] Re: ANN: RandomR 0.1.0

On Wed, 28 Nov 2001, ts wrote:

> >>>>> "R" == Robert Feldt <feldt@ce.chalmers.se> writes:
> 
> R> Below is README for a small wrapper for a fast Mersenne Twister
> R> algorithm. Is a really good pseudo-random number generator, can be
> R> marshaled etc. This is an alpha release and only tested on a single
> R> platform. If you have problems then please mail me.
> 
>  Well, it seems that it's cokus.c but with the modification of mt19937-2.c
>  to have a [0, 1) intervals.
> 
As it says in the README its Richard Wagners MT code which in turn is
based on Shawn Cokus version but even faster.

>  The other difference with cokus.c, is that cokus.c always use an odd
>  seed. 
> 
I haven't studied cokus code.

Regards,

Robert