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Investigate if we should use mt19937_64 for 64 bit numbers #844

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wolfv opened this issue May 14, 2018 · 1 comment

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wolfv commented May 14, 2018

There exists a slower mersenne twister that computes 64 bits of random values instead of 32.

Maybe we should document this fact for users that are concerned with higher quality random numbers?

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wolfv commented May 14, 2018

Seemingly related discussion: numpy/numpy#3137

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