21 Jul
2005
21 Jul
'05
10:09 p.m.
Tiago de Paula Peixoto wrote:
The Mersenne Twister RNG was updated by the original author in 2002, because of a small problem in the seeding procedure, which was that the most significant bit of the seed was not well reflected to the state vector. Read http://www.math.sci.hiroshima-u.ac.jp/~m-mat/MT/MT2002/emt19937ar.html for more details.
Boost.Random has the updated seeding algorithm since April 2005. It is now mentioned in Boost's main index.htm changelog, too. The specification in the C++ ISO Working Group's Draft Library Technical Report has been changed as of April 2005. Jens Maurer