Mersenne Twister
Generates high quality pseudo random integers with a long period.
Used as the default random number generator for several
languages (including Python).
For a more technical overview, see the wikipedia entry.
Pseudocode: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mersenne_twister
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class
algorithms.random.mersenne_twister.MersenneTwister[source]
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generate()[source]
Generates 624 random numbers and stores in the state list.
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randint()[source]
Extracts a random number.
| Return type: | A random integer |
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seed(seed)[source]
Initialize generator.
| Parameters: | seed – An integer value to seed the generator with |
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