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Mersenne Twister Random Number Generator

Posted by Trevor Misfeldt Articles | Algorithms in C# April 01, 2003
The attached source code is the C# implementation of the Mersenne Twister algorithm, developed by Makoto Matsumoto and Takuji Nishimura in 1996-1997.
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The attached source code is the C# implementation of the Mersenne Twister algorithm, developed by Makoto Matsumoto and Takuji Nishimura in 1996-1997. This algorithm is faster and more efficient, and has a far longer period and far higher order of equidistribution, than other existing generators.

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An update to Trevor's code, which implements System.Random and incorporates new research about the Mersenne Twister algorithm when generating double floating point values, can be found here: http://code.msdn.microsoft.com/MersenneTwister/ .

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