On Monday 15 December 2008 18:01:41 Michael Gilbert wrote: > According to wikipedia [1], some common Mersenne twister algorithms > use a linear congruential gradient (LCG) to generate seeds. LCGs have > been known to produce poor random numbers. Does numpy's Mersenne > twister do this? And if so, is this potentially a problem?
No. Once the seeding is done, the Mersenne twister generates the random numbers. So long as you are using those, you are fine (except for cryptographic applications). If you don't trust the seed, you could always seed it yourself as well. Regards, Ravi _______________________________________________ Numpy-discussion mailing list Numpy-discussion@scipy.org http://projects.scipy.org/mailman/listinfo/numpy-discussion
