[Lemon-user] Is rnd() platform independent?

Balazs Dezso deba.mf at gmail.com
Fri Jun 26 09:15:01 CEST 2009


Hi,

I think, the reason is the efficiency. I checked the official site of the 
inventors, and they created 32 and 64 bit generators as well.
http://www.math.sci.hiroshima-u.ac.jp/~m-mat/MT/emt.html

Best, Balazs

On Thursday 25 June 2009 21:49:38 Alpár Jüttner wrote:
> > It is not completely platform independent, since it works differently for
> > 32 and 64 bit architectures.
>
> And what's the reason for this? Efficiency?
>
> Isn't a Mersenne-Twister a specific algorithm? How come does it work
> differently depending on the processor bus width?
>
> Regards,
> Alpar
>
> > Best, Balazs
> >
> > On Thursday 25 June 2009 08:42:01 Alpár Jüttner wrote:
> > > Hi,
> > >
> > > Is the sequence of numbers generated by rnd() platform independent?
> > >
> > > Regards,
> > > Alpar
> > >
> > >
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