Re: [boost] How to inspect state of boost::mt19937?

Subject: Re: [boost] How to inspect state of boost::mt19937?
From: Matthew Gwynne (mathew.gwynne_at_[hidden])
Date: 2011-05-20 09:40:10

Ah ha! That works perfectly!

Thank you!

Matthew Gwynne

On Wed, May 18, 2011 at 1:20 PM, Sergiu Dotenco
<sergiu.dotenco_at_[hidden]> wrote:
> 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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