• The Mersenne Twister is a general-purpose pseudorandom number generator (PRNG) developed in 1997 by Makoto Matsumoto (松本 眞) and Takuji Nishimura (西村 拓士)...
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  • Erdős–Borwein constant Mersenne conjectures Mersenne twister Double Mersenne number Prime95 / MPrime Great Internet Mersenne Prime Search (GIMPS) Largest...
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  • up twister in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Twister most commonly refers to a tornado. Twister or Twisters may also refer to: Pipistrel Twister, a...
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  • 1997 invention of the Mersenne Twister, in particular, avoided many of the problems with earlier generators. The Mersenne Twister has a period of 219 937 − 1...
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    number generators including linear congruential generators and the Mersenne Twister. Prime numbers are of central importance to number theory but also...
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    Marin Mersenne, OM (also known as Marinus Mersennus or le Père Mersenne; French: [maʁɛ̃ mɛʁsɛn]; 8 September 1588 – 1 September 1648) was a French polymath...
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    6364136223846793005 1442695040888963407 (2^(64 ::Integer)) Free Pascal uses a Mersenne Twister as its default pseudo random number generator whereas Delphi uses a...
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  • 1090/S0025-5718-97-00827-2. Matsumoto, M.; Nishimura, T. (1998). "MersenneTwister: A623-dimensionally Equidistributed Uniform Pseudo-Random Number Generator"...
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  • a Japanese mathematician principally known as the inventor of the Mersenne Twister, a widely used pseudorandom number generator. He is also the author...
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    is true for all generators based on linear recurrences, such as the Mersenne Twister or WELL. However, it is easy to scramble the output of such generators...
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  • cryptography, CryptMT is a stream cipher algorithm which internally uses the Mersenne twister. It was developed by Makoto Matsumoto, Mariko Hagita, Takuji Nishimura...
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  • default random number generator in C, and about 20× slower than the Mersenne Twister. Although a Python module of RDRAND has been constructed, it was found...
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  • called a Two-tap generalised feedback shift register or GFSR. The Mersenne Twister algorithm is a variation on a GFSR. The GFSR is also related to the...
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  • randomness. When implemented correctly, a PRNG algorithm such as the Mersenne Twister will ensure that the games are both fair and unpredictable. However...
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  • in computing, equal to one million transfer operations per second Mersenne twister, a pseudorandom number generator algorithm Mistype, a declaration of...
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    languages, including Python, Ruby, R, IDL and PHP is based on the Mersenne Twister algorithm and is not sufficient for cryptography purposes, as is explicitly...
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  • algorithms: linear_congruential_engine, subtract_with_carry_engine, and mersenne_twister_engine. C++11 also provides a number of standard distributions:...
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    achieved by overwriting the data with pseudorandom numbers generated by Mersenne Twister or ISAAC. The Gutmann method, Quick Erase, DoD Short (3 passes), and...
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    based on Carpenter's work. In 2006 made improvements to the popular Mersenne Twister random number generator. As of 2022 Carpenter is working with Ostrich...
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  • solvers. Probability distributions. Random number generation (including Mersenne Twister MT19937). QR, LU, SVD, and Cholesky decomposition classes. Matrix IO...
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  • the best of the alternatives, requires 40 bits of state,: 19  and Mersenne twister fails despite 19937 bits of state. It has been shown that it is practically...
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    instruction set, as compared to those derived from algorithms, like the Mersenne Twister, in Monte Carlo simulations of radio flares from brown dwarfs. No statistically...
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    to 1 static std::mt19937 rng(std::random_device{}()); // Standard mersenne_twister_engine seeded with rd() static std::uniform_real_distribution<> runif(0...
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  • performance is better than some very widely used generators (including the Mersenne Twister MT19937) and comparable to the best currently available methods" and...
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  • Blum Shub Lagged Fibonacci generator Linear congruential generator Mersenne Twister Coloring algorithm: Graph coloring algorithm. Hopcroft–Karp algorithm:...
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  • ACORN ISAAC Lagged Fibonacci generator Linear congruential generator Mersenne twister Linear-feedback shift register Shrinking generator Stream cipher see...
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  • factor of 2r − 1. Primes have no non-trivial factors.) Although the Mersenne Twister pseudo-random number generator does not use a trinomial, it does take...
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  • continuous and multivariate. Pseudo-random number generation, including Mersenne Twister MT19937. Real and complex linear algebra types and solvers with support...
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  • Pseudorandom number generators LCG, KDF2, Blum Blum Shub, ANSI X9.17, Mersenne Twister, RDRAND and RDSEED High speed stream ciphers ChaCha8/12/20, ChaCha20...
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  • implementation on a 32-bit machine. The structure is similar to the Mersenne Twister, a large state made up of previous output words (32 bits each), from...
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