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by madisfun 2611 days ago
Mersenne Twister has a huge state, and if you have to use the MT (you need a very long period), you will probably want to be able to initialize it properly. For the common use case is a linear congruential generator which is initialized with just one integer.
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Huh? You can't possibly need a period 2^19937-1.