1 This is a Mersenne Twister pseudorandom number generator
2 with period 2^19937-1 with improved initialization scheme,
3 modified on 2002/1/26 by Takuji Nishimura and Makoto Matsumoto.
5 Contents of this tar ball:
6 readme-mt.txt this file
7 mt19937ar.c the C source (ar: initialize by ARray)
8 mt19937ar.out Test outputs of six types generators. 1000 for each
11 The initialization scheme for the previous versions of MT
12 (e.g. 1999/10/28 version or earlier) has a tiny problem, that
13 the most significant bits of the seed is not well reflected
14 to the state vector of MT.
16 This version (2002/1/26) has two initialization schemes:
17 init_genrand(seed) and init_by_array(init_key, key_length).
19 init_genrand(seed) initializes the state vector by using
20 one unsigned 32-bit integer "seed", which may be zero.
22 init_by_array(init_key, key_length) initializes the state vector
23 by using an array init_key[] of unsigned 32-bit integers
24 of length key_kength. If key_length is smaller than 624,
25 then each array of 32-bit integers gives distinct initial
26 state vector. This is useful if you want a larger seed space
30 After initialization, the following type of pseudorandom numbers
33 genrand_int32() generates unsigned 32-bit integers.
34 genrand_int31() generates unsigned 31-bit integers.
35 genrand_real1() generates uniform real in [0,1] (32-bit resolution).
36 genrand_real2() generates uniform real in [0,1) (32-bit resolution).
37 genrand_real3() generates uniform real in (0,1) (32-bit resolution).
38 genrand_res53() generates uniform real in [0,1) with 53-bit resolution.
40 Note: the last five functions call the first one.
41 if you need more speed for these five functions, you may
42 suppress the function call by copying genrand_int32() and
43 replacing the last return(), following to these five functions.
46 main() is an example to initialize with an array of length 4,
47 then 1000 outputs of unsigned 32-bit integers,
48 then 1000 outputs of real [0,1) numbers.
51 The output of the mt19937ar.c is in the file mt19937ar.out.
52 If you revise or translate the code, check the output
56 This generator is not cryptoraphically secure.
57 You need to use a one-way (or hash) function to obtain
58 a secure random sequence.
62 URL http://www.math.keio.ac.jp/matumoto/emt.html
63 email matumoto@math.keio.ac.jp, nisimura@sci.kj.yamagata-u.ac.jp
66 M. Matsumoto and T. Nishimura,
67 "Mersenne Twister: A 623-Dimensionally Equidistributed Uniform
68 Pseudo-Random Number Generator",
69 ACM Transactions on Modeling and Computer Simulation,
70 Vol. 8, No. 1, January 1998, pp 3--30.
73 Copyright (C) 1997 - 2002, Makoto Matsumoto and Takuji Nishimura,