
6 Jun
2007
6 Jun
'07
3:23 p.m.
On 06/06/07, Peter Dimov <pdimov@mmltd.net> wrote:
Jos Hickson wrote:
On 05/06/07, Peter Dimov <pdimov@mmltd.net> wrote:
[snip] ... and if Engine is a template parameter, we probably need to support engines that only take a 32 bit seed anyway.
Isn't it the case that the maximum seed size is related (equal?) to the difference between the max and min values produced by a particular engine and also that all the engines in Boost Random provide the iterator version of seed?
The seed for mt19937 is 624 words. Aah, a bit bigger then!