Re: Ada implementation of Mersenne Twister (MT19937)

[Hugo Pfoertner <hugo.pfoertner@talknet.de>]

There was a discussion in the sci.math NG on pseudo random numbers in
Ada in September 2001, which might be of some interest in this context:
Search on Google Groups:
http://groups.google.com/groups?q=%2Brandom+%2Bgeneration+%2Bsachi&hl=en
and select the thread
Re: basic random number generating methods

Adrian: Is the recent update (mt19937ar.c) dated 2002/01/26 already
considered in your port? If not, are you planning to include it? 


Hugo Pfoertner

Christoph & Ursula Grein wrote:
> 
> > From: byhoe@greenlime.com
> > To: comp.lang.ada@ada.eu.org
> > Subject: Ada implementation of Mersenne Twister (MT19937)
> > Date: 28 Jan 2002 00:43:35 -0800
> >
> > Hello,
> >
> > 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.
> 
> > So, I decided to port Makoto Matsumoto and
> > Takuji Nishimura's work to Ada.
> >
> > Thought someone might be interested to use MT19937. You can download
> > the source from my web site at http://greenlime.com/users/adrian.hoe
> 
> Didn't have yet a look at the above...
> 
> >
> >                               -- Adrian Hoe
> >                               -- http://greenlime.com/users/adrian.hoe