Mersenne twister: a 623-dimensionally equidistributed uniform pseudo-random number generator
@article{Matsumoto1998MersenneTA,
title={Mersenne twister: a 623-dimensionally equidistributed uniform pseudo-random number generator},
author={Makoto Matsumoto and Takuji Nishimura},
journal={ACM Trans. Model. Comput. Simul.},
year={1998},
volume={8},
pages={3-30}
}A new algorithm called Mersenne Twister (MT) is proposed for generating uniform pseudorandom numbers. For a particular choice of parameters, the algorithm provides a super astronomical period of 2<supscrpt>19937</supscrpt> −1 and 623-dimensional equidistribution up to 32-bit accuracy, while using a working area of only 624 words. This is a new variant of the previously proposed generators, TGFSR, modified so as to admit a Mersenne-prime period. The characteristic polynomial has many terms. The…
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