The latest version of mwc-random is 0.15.1.0-0.
mwc-random
Version 0.15.0.1 revision 2 uploaded by AlexeyKhudyakov.
Package meta
- Synopsis
- Fast, high quality pseudo random number generation
- Description
This package contains code for generating high quality random numbers that follow either a uniform or normal distribution. The generated numbers are suitable for use in statistical applications.
The uniform PRNG uses Marsaglia's MWC256 (also known as MWC8222) multiply-with-carry generator, which has a period of 2^8222 and fares well in tests of randomness. It is also extremely fast, between 2 and 3 times faster than the Mersenne Twister.
Compared to the mersenne-random package, this package has a more convenient API, is faster, and supports more statistical distributions.
- Author
- Bryan O'Sullivan <bos@serpentine.com>
- Bug reports
- https://github.com/bos/mwc-random/issues
- Category
- Math, Statistics
- Copyright
- 2009, 2010, 2011 Bryan O'Sullivan
- Homepage
- https://github.com/bos/mwc-random
- Maintainer
- Bryan O'Sullivan <bos@serpentine.com>
- Package URL
- n/a
- Stability
- n/a