Class MersenneTwister
- All Implemented Interfaces:
Serializable
,RandomGenerator
Caveat: It is recommended to use one of WELL generators rather than the MersenneTwister generator (see this paper for more information).
This generator features an extremely long period (219937-1) and 623-dimensional equidistribution up to 32 bits accuracy. The home page for this generator is located at http://www.math.sci.hiroshima-u.ac.jp/~m-mat/MT/emt.html.
This generator is described in a paper by Makoto Matsumoto and Takuji Nishimura in 1998: Mersenne Twister: A 623-Dimensionally Equidistributed Uniform Pseudo-Random Number Generator, ACM Transactions on Modeling and Computer Simulation, Vol. 8, No. 1, January 1998, pp 3--30.
This class is mainly a Java port of the 2002-01-26 version of the generator written in C by Makoto Matsumoto and Takuji Nishimura. Here is their original copyright:
Copyright (C) 1997 - 2002, Makoto Matsumoto and Takuji Nishimura, All rights reserved.
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Constructor Summary
ConstructorDescriptionCreates a new random number generator.MersenneTwister
(int seed) Creates a new random number generator using a single int seed.MersenneTwister
(int[] seed) Creates a new random number generator using an int array seed.MersenneTwister
(long seed) Creates a new random number generator using a single long seed. -
Method Summary
Modifier and TypeMethodDescriptionprotected void
Clears the cache used by the default implementation ofRandomGenerator.nextGaussian()
.boolean
Returns the next pseudorandom, uniformly distributedboolean
value from this random number generator's sequence.void
nextBytes
(byte[] bytes) Generates random bytes and places them into a user-supplied byte array.void
nextBytes
(byte[] bytes, int start, int len) Generates random bytes and places them into a user-supplied byte array.double
Returns the next pseudorandom, uniformly distributeddouble
value between0.0
and1.0
from this random number generator's sequence.float
Returns the next pseudorandom, uniformly distributedfloat
value between0.0
and1.0
from this random number generator's sequence.double
Returns the next pseudorandom, Gaussian ("normally") distributeddouble
value with mean0.0
and standard deviation1.0
from this random number generator's sequence.int
nextInt()
Returns the next pseudorandom, uniformly distributedint
value from this random number generator's sequence.int
nextInt
(int n) Returns a pseudorandom, uniformly distributedint
value between 0 (inclusive) and the specified value (exclusive), drawn from this random number generator's sequence.long
nextLong()
Returns the next pseudorandom, uniformly distributedlong
value from this random number generator's sequence.long
nextLong
(long n) Returns a pseudorandom, uniformly distributedint
value between 0 (inclusive) and the specified value (exclusive), drawn from this random number generator's sequence.void
setSeed
(int seed) Reinitialize the generator as if just built with the given int seed.void
setSeed
(int[] seed) Reinitialize the generator as if just built with the given int array seed.void
setSeed
(long seed) Sets the seed of the underlying random number generator using along
seed.toString()
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Constructor Details
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MersenneTwister
public MersenneTwister()Creates a new random number generator.The instance is initialized using the current time plus the system identity hash code of this instance as the seed.
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MersenneTwister
public MersenneTwister(int seed) Creates a new random number generator using a single int seed.- Parameters:
seed
- the initial seed (32 bits integer)
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MersenneTwister
public MersenneTwister(int[] seed) Creates a new random number generator using an int array seed.- Parameters:
seed
- the initial seed (32 bits integers array), if null the seed of the generator will be related to the current time
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MersenneTwister
public MersenneTwister(long seed) Creates a new random number generator using a single long seed.- Parameters:
seed
- the initial seed (64 bits integer)
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Method Details
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setSeed
public void setSeed(int seed) Reinitialize the generator as if just built with the given int seed.The state of the generator is exactly the same as a new generator built with the same seed.
- Specified by:
setSeed
in interfaceRandomGenerator
- Parameters:
seed
- the initial seed (32 bits integer)
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setSeed
public void setSeed(int[] seed) Reinitialize the generator as if just built with the given int array seed.The state of the generator is exactly the same as a new generator built with the same seed.
- Specified by:
setSeed
in interfaceRandomGenerator
- Parameters:
seed
- the initial seed (32 bits integers array), if null the seed of the generator will be the current system time plus the system identity hash code of this instance
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nextInt
public int nextInt()Returns the next pseudorandom, uniformly distributedint
value from this random number generator's sequence.All 232 possible
int
values should be produced with (approximately) equal probability.- Specified by:
nextInt
in interfaceRandomGenerator
- Returns:
- the next pseudorandom, uniformly distributed
int
value from this random number generator's sequence
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nextBoolean
public boolean nextBoolean()Returns the next pseudorandom, uniformly distributedboolean
value from this random number generator's sequence.- Returns:
- the next pseudorandom, uniformly distributed
boolean
value from this random number generator's sequence
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nextDouble
public double nextDouble()Returns the next pseudorandom, uniformly distributeddouble
value between0.0
and1.0
from this random number generator's sequence.- Returns:
- the next pseudorandom, uniformly distributed
double
value between0.0
and1.0
from this random number generator's sequence
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nextFloat
public float nextFloat()Returns the next pseudorandom, uniformly distributedfloat
value between0.0
and1.0
from this random number generator's sequence.- Returns:
- the next pseudorandom, uniformly distributed
float
value between0.0
and1.0
from this random number generator's sequence
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nextLong
public long nextLong()Returns the next pseudorandom, uniformly distributedlong
value from this random number generator's sequence. All 264 possiblelong
values should be produced with (approximately) equal probability.- Returns:
- the next pseudorandom, uniformly distributed
long
value from this random number generator's sequence
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nextBytes
public void nextBytes(byte[] bytes) Generates random bytes and places them into a user-supplied byte array. The number of random bytes produced is equal to the length of the byte array.- Parameters:
bytes
- the non-null byte array in which to put the random bytes
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nextBytes
public void nextBytes(byte[] bytes, int start, int len) Generates random bytes and places them into a user-supplied byte array.- Parameters:
bytes
- the non-null byte array in which to put the random bytesstart
- the starting index for inserting the generated bytes into the arraylen
- the number of bytes to generate
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setSeed
public void setSeed(long seed) Sets the seed of the underlying random number generator using along
seed.Sequences of values generated starting with the same seeds should be identical.
- Specified by:
setSeed
in interfaceRandomGenerator
- Parameters:
seed
- the seed value
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nextInt
Returns a pseudorandom, uniformly distributedint
value between 0 (inclusive) and the specified value (exclusive), drawn from this random number generator's sequence.- Specified by:
nextInt
in interfaceRandomGenerator
- Parameters:
n
- the bound on the random number to be returned. Must be positive.- Returns:
- a pseudorandom, uniformly distributed
int
value between 0 (inclusive) and n (exclusive). - Throws:
IllegalArgumentException
- if n is not positive.
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nextLong
public long nextLong(long n) Returns a pseudorandom, uniformly distributedint
value between 0 (inclusive) and the specified value (exclusive), drawn from this random number generator's sequence.- Specified by:
nextLong
in interfaceRandomGenerator
- Parameters:
n
- the bound on the random number to be returned. Must be positive.- Returns:
- a pseudorandom, uniformly distributed
int
value between 0 (inclusive) and n (exclusive).
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nextGaussian
public double nextGaussian()Returns the next pseudorandom, Gaussian ("normally") distributeddouble
value with mean0.0
and standard deviation1.0
from this random number generator's sequence.- Specified by:
nextGaussian
in interfaceRandomGenerator
- Returns:
- the next pseudorandom, Gaussian ("normally") distributed
double
value with mean0.0
and standard deviation1.0
from this random number generator's sequence
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clearCache
protected void clearCache()Clears the cache used by the default implementation ofRandomGenerator.nextGaussian()
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toString
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