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# It is high time we let go of the Mersenne Twister

@article{Vigna2019ItIH,
title={It is high time we let go of the Mersenne Twister},
author={S. Vigna},
journal={ArXiv},
year={2019},
volume={abs/1910.06437}
}
• S. Vigna
• Published 2019
• Mathematics, Computer Science
• ArXiv
• When the Mersenne Twister made his first appearance in 1997 it was a powerful example of how linear maps on $\mathbf F_2$ could be used to generate pseudorandom numbers. In particular, the easiness with which generators with long periods could be defined gave the Mersenne Twister a large following, in spite of the fact that such long periods are not a measure of quality, and they require a large amount of memory. Even at the time of its publication, several defects of the Mersenne Twister were… CONTINUE READING
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