Re: Ada implementation of Mersenne Twister (MT19937)

[Jeffrey Carter <jeffrey.carter@boeing.com>]

Christoph & Ursula Grein wrote:
> 
> > I could not find an Ada implementation of MT19937 pseudo random number
> > generator by searching CLA.
> 
> Is this what you are looking for?
> 
>   --                   Random Number Generator
>   --
>   -- The algorithm was developed by George Marsaglia,
>   -- Supercomputer Computations Research Institute,
>   -- Florida State University
>   -- (ref. to Ada LETTERS, Volume VIII, Number2, March/April 1988).
> 
> I've an implementation together with a test driver. It produces the prescribed
> result.
> Whoever is interested I will send.

No that's Marsaglia's Universal random number generator, a different
algorithm than MT19937. An implementation of Marsaglia's Universal
generator is also part of the PragmAda Reusable Components.

> > Thought someone might be interested to use MT19937. You can download
> > the source from my web site at http://greenlime.com/users/adrian.hoe

Note that Hoe's implementation is released under the GPL, not the GMGPL:
any program that uses it is also under the GPL.

-- 
Jeffrey Carter