From: Matthew Moss <matthew.moss@...>
Date: 2008-08-16T10:15:56+09:00
Subject: Re: Not So Random (#173)



On Aug 15, 7:16 pm, Martin Bryce <nx-2...@fastwebnet.it> wrote:
> I know that a Mersenne Twister has a large internal state, so it takes
> time to "get started" and produce good quality random numbers from a
> non-random initial state. If it gets frequently reseeded, either the
> seeding procedure refreshes all the state and runs it for a bit (i.e.
> takes a lot of time) or the quality will greatly degrade, I guess. Is
> this a problem?

For the purposes of this quiz, no.