Am Sun, 10 Jun 2012 00:24 +0100 schrieb Andrew Talbot <andrew.tal...@talbotville.com>:
> Forgive what may be the unintelligible ramblings of an ignorant > hobbyist, but, if I am not mistaken, the Mersenne Twister > implementation in std.random currently can be seeded only with a > 32-bit unsigned integer, which I presume gives it 2^32 starting > points, whereas I believe there should also be an alternative option > to seed it with an array of up to 624 uintS, so that potentially it > can be started in any one of its 19,937 internal states. I may be > wrong, but I believe that to have instant access to enough of the > "state space" to be able to generate a large number of unique random > UUIDs this second seeding option may be necessary. > Could someone who's familiar with RNGs answer this question? This seems to be important for st.uuid, we should get this right.
