On 6/11/12 12:32 PM, Joseph Rushton Wakeling wrote:
On 11/06/12 18:15, Johannes Pfau wrote:
Could someone who's familiar with RNGs answer this question? This seems
to be important for st.uuid, we should get this right.
In the Boost C++ implementation it certainly accepts a range as input:
template<class It>
void seed(It& first, It last)
{
int j;
for(j = 0; j < n && first != last; ++j, ++first)
x[j] = *first;
i = n;
if(first == last && j < n)
throw std::invalid_argument("mersenne_twister::seed");
}
Some information on the seeding issue can be found here:
http://www.math.sci.hiroshima-u.ac.jp/~m-mat/MT/MT2002/emt19937ar.html
We should have the same in std.random. Could anyone please initiate a
pull request?
Thanks,
Andrei
