On 2016-02-12 04:15, Tim Peters wrote:
[Greg Ewing ]
The Mersenne Twister is no longer regarded as quite state-of-the art
because it can get into states that produce long sequences that are
not very random.
There is a variation on MT called WELL that has better properties
in this regard. Does a
On Fri, Feb 12, 2016 at 3:12 PM, Andrew Barnert via Python-Dev
wrote:
> On Thursday, February 11, 2016 7:20 PM, Stephen J. Turnbull
> wrote:
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>
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>> I think we should keep it around forever. Even my slowest colleagues
>> are learning that they should record their seeds and PRNG algorithms
>> f
[Greg Ewing ]
> The Mersenne Twister is no longer regarded as quite state-of-the art
> because it can get into states that produce long sequences that are
> not very random.
>
> There is a variation on MT called WELL that has better properties
> in this regard. Does anyone think it would be a good
On Thursday, February 11, 2016 7:20 PM, Stephen J. Turnbull
wrote:
> I think we should keep it around forever. Even my slowest colleagues
> are learning that they should record their seeds and PRNG algorithms
> for reproducibility's sake. :-)
+1
> For that matter, restore Wichmann-Hill.
So
Steven D'Aprano writes:
> Peters has an opinion?) but if we do change, I'd like to see the
> existing random.Random moved to random.MT_Random for backwards
> compatibility and compatibility with other software which uses MT. Not
> necessarily saying that we have to keep it around forever (a
On 2016-02-11 00:08, Greg Ewing wrote:
The Mersenne Twister is no longer regarded as quite state-of-the art
because it can get into states that produce long sequences that are
not very random.
There is a variation on MT called WELL that has better properties
in this regard. Does anyone think it
On Thu, Feb 11, 2016 at 01:08:41PM +1300, Greg Ewing wrote:
> The Mersenne Twister is no longer regarded as quite state-of-the art
> because it can get into states that produce long sequences that are
> not very random.
>
> There is a variation on MT called WELL that has better properties
> in thi
The Mersenne Twister is no longer regarded as quite state-of-the art
because it can get into states that produce long sequences that are
not very random.
There is a variation on MT called WELL that has better properties
in this regard. Does anyone think it would be a good idea to replace
MT with