@hackage / mersenne-random-pure64

Generate high quality pseudorandom numbers purely using a Mersenne Twister

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  • Last updated , by HerbertValerioRiedel
  • License BSD-3-Clause
  • Categories Mathematics, Systems Programming

  • Maintained by: Don Stewart <dons00@gmail.com>

  • Lottery factor: 0

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  1. 7.10.3

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The Mersenne twister is a pseudorandom number generator developed by Makoto Matsumoto and Takuji Nishimura that is based on a matrix linear recurrence over a finite binary field. It provides for fast generation of very high quality pseudorandom numbers. The source for the C code can be found here:

http://www.math.sci.hiroshima-u.ac.jp/~m-mat/MT/emt64.html

This library provides a purely functional binding to the 64 bit classic mersenne twister, along with instances of RandomGen, so the generator can be used with System.Random. The generator should typically be a few times faster than the default StdGen (but a tad slower than the impure 'mersenne-random' library based on SIMD instructions and destructive state updates.