Quote:Original post by Drew_Benton
Very useful info Liam M, I haven't read though it all yet to undestand, but looks good(useful) nonetheless [wink]

You're better off reading the original paper.

M. Matsumoto and T. Nishimura, "Mersenne Twister: A 623-Dimensionally
Equidistributed Uniform Pseudo-Random Number Generator", ACM Transactions
on Modeling and Computer Simulation, Vol. 8, No. 1, January 1998, pp 3-30.

Or visit the home page.

This generator, and a host of others, are a part of the C++ TR1 proposed standard extension. Implementations are avilable from boost.