Mersenne twister

Noun

Meaning

Mersenne twister (plural Mersenne twisters)

(computing) A kind of pseudorandom number generator whose period length is chosen to be a Mersenne prime.

Examples

Matsumoto, Makoto, and Takuji Nishimura (1998) ACM Transactions on Modeling and Computer Simulation 8 A common Mersenne twister implementation, interestingly enough, uses an LCG to generate seed data. Source: Internet

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