Re: [pure-lang-users] Random

[Albert G. <Dr....@t-...>]

Albert Graef wrote:
> Hmm, many algorithms in C libraries are crappier than what you'd come up
> with in a minute. How about the Mersenne twister? It's not
> crytographically secure, but otherwise it's very good. I still have an
> implementation of that in the Q codebase, shouldn't take longer than
> five minutes to add it to the library.

I added the Mersenne Twister now. See random/srandom in math.pure. Note
that random returns a 32 bit machine int, so the numbers may be negative.

Albert

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