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I'm not sure what this gives me over what seeding my relatively-modern pseudorandom number generator with Math::TrulyRandom will do. If I'm really concerned, I can just reseed it every 100 iterations or so.

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Re^2: MZT random number generator
by jimbojones (Friar) on Jun 21, 2005 at 17:44 UTC
    If I read the code correctly, this is a Perl implementation of this, of which is claimed:
    THIS IS THE BEST KNOWN RANDOM NUMBER GENERATOR AVAILABLE.
    ...
    It passes ALL of the tests for random number generators and has a period of 2^144, is completely portable (gives bit identical results on all machines with at least 24-bit mantissas in the floating point representation).
    so if you are looking for a deterministic, long-period pseudo-random number generator, perhaps this is it.

    - j

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