Hi
On 8/4/22 22:32, Hans Henrik Bergan wrote:
dangerous to be sure, but it's also a technically valid seed,
are you sure we should disallow a valid seed?
The all-zero state is not a valid state as per the reference
implementation at: https://xoshiro.di.unimi.it/xoshiro256starstar.c
> The state must be seeded so that it is not everywhere zero.
The period of Xoshiro256** is officially defined to be 2**256 - 1
instead of 2**256 for that reason.
Best regards
Tim Düsterhus
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