From: Robert Feldt <feldt@...>
Date: 2001-11-29T02:11:48+09:00
Subject: [ruby-talk:26820] Re: ANN: RandomR 0.1.0

On Wed, 28 Nov 2001, ts wrote:

> >>>>> "R" == Robert Feldt <feldt@ce.chalmers.se> writes:
> 
> >> The other difference with cokus.c, is that cokus.c always use an odd
> >> seed. 
> >> 
> R> I haven't studied cokus code.
> 
>  Then look at it, there are good reasons to have an odd seed :-)
> 
Ok, thanks for pointing that out. Richard Wagner seemed to have missed
it. I added "| 1U" and released as 0.1.1.

BTW, I noticed that the inventors of the Mersenne Twister now allow
commercial use so it might now be used in for example the Ruby source
without licensing problems. I don't think that's ok with the faster code
based on Shawn Cokus used here but anyway...

http://www.math.keio.ac.jp/~matumoto/eartistic.html

/Robert