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Subject: Re: [boost] How to inspect state of boost::mt19937?
From: Sergiu Dotenco (sergiu.dotenco_at_[hidden])
Date: 2011-05-18 08:20:52


Am 18.05.2011 11:43, schrieb Matthew Gwynne:
> Hi,
>
> Does anyone know how I can access the internal state of the Mersenne
> twister (boost::mt19937) easily? That is the 623 state bytes.
>
> I am looking to initialise a random number generator and then inspect
> the state to compare it to another system which apparently implements
> MT19937 but gives different results.
>
> If someone could point me in the right direction, that would be great!
>
> Thanks!
>
> Matthew Gwynne
> http://cs.swan.ac.uk/~csmg/

You can use the << operator to output the state to a stream as space
separated list.

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