Re: Random number generators. advice?

[Sven N. Thommesen]

At 01:20 PM 2/21/2001 -0500, you wrote:
> Paul,
>
> I like the random number generators provided by the Colt library,
> especially the Mersenne Twister
> (http://tilde-hoschek.home.cern.ch/~hoschek/colt/index.htm). If you're
> trying to "match" up random numbers, would it possible to use a rng to
> generate either a file or another object that would hold the values, and
> just retrieve those values? This would certainly make the values
> identical, plus give you a history of the numbers used. Obviously,
> depending on how many numbers you needed, this might require too much
> memory or disk space.
>
> steve

The Colt library is nice. Note that heir Mersenne Twister is the same as 
our MT19937 generator.

Sven


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