Re: [boost] [Random] Mersenne Twister initialization problem [PATCH]

From: Jens Maurer (Jens.Maurer_at_[hidden])
Date: 2005-07-21 17:09:30

Tiago de Paula Peixoto wrote:
> The Mersenne Twister RNG was updated by the original author in 2002,
> because of a small problem in the seeding procedure, which was that the
> most significant bit of the seed was not well reflected to the state
> vector. Read
> http://www.math.sci.hiroshima-u.ac.jp/~m-mat/MT/MT2002/emt19937ar.html
> for more details.

Boost.Random has the updated seeding algorithm since April 2005.
It is now mentioned in Boost's main index.htm changelog, too.

The specification in the C++ ISO Working Group's
Draft Library Technical Report has been changed as of April 2005.

Jens Maurer