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by Kluny 3784 days ago
Yeah, we got that. But why did you need a Mersenne Twister?
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My understanding is that Mersenne Twister is kind of a gold standard for non-cryptographic PRNGs. Linear congruential generators are known to be rather poor, and only ideal where speed is critical and the quality doesn't matter.