> From: Robert Dodier
> On Wed, Feb 4, 2009 at 12:27 AM, Mehmet Suzen
> <mehmet.suzen at physics.org> wrote:
>
> > Can you suggest a reference for the Mersenne Twister?
The file src/rand-mt19937.lisp
http://maxima.cvs.sourceforge.net/viewvc/maxima/maxima/src/rand-mt19937.
lisp?view=log
says:
;;; Support for the Mersenne Twister, MT19937, random number generator
;;; due to Matsumoto and Nishimura. This implementation has been
;;; placed in the public domain with permission from M. Matsumoto.
;;;
;;; Makoto Matsumoto and T. Nishimura, "Mersenne twister: A
;;; 623-dimensionally equidistributed uniform pseudorandom number
;;; generator.", ACM Transactions on Modeling and Computer Simulation,
;;; 1997, to appear.
google will find a copy on the authors home page.
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