From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from phicode.de ([136.243.147.240]) by ewsd; Tue Sep 24 05:45:14 EDT 2019 Comment: DomainKeys? See http://domainkeys.sourceforge.net/ DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=default; d=phicode.de; b=cXvPBXRVzQZJHYkcO87TMdICvOEtVBlsQXdAGp9LGpXxZWDPeKbu7SmddyvBPd0C4Ba2Jx6y0Y7XPrwEqWlF/+/ql36ipGeWhNDKXgaR3M/AOFilPdkDIvbBsgGd7EWkWaUB6/2m9k3TpzagTas/OWccVrBAp5caMOJbfdbUWKI=; h=Received:Received:Date:From:To:Subject:In-Reply-To:Message-ID:References:User-Agent:MIME-Version:Content-Type; DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha1; c=relaxed; d=phicode.de; h=date:from:to :subject:in-reply-to:message-id:references:mime-version :content-type; s=default; bh=bGwqeP3cwNbhTnrY4+9AKIp+Gvk=; b=kMP g/Z29siOXnmZI/phS6B1Qqa2rOnqnLrZazEFLMCWu19+kjKY7+KWFcLEP0U8WRuu jPQ86OmRRN6dRms8CyIFA+OFslCq6grhHm+PpEGLLDSGBithukjrC18VD66brM5h bssXCIx2CG9h4UI4jxueym7EL5bOOcD+DPjHUJO8= Received: (qmail 8440 invoked from network); 24 Sep 2019 09:45:11 -0000 Received: from localhost (127.0.0.1) by localhost with SMTP; 24 Sep 2019 09:45:11 -0000 Date: Tue, 24 Sep 2019 11:45:10 +0200 (CEST) From: Julius Schmidt To: 9front@9front.org Subject: Re: [9front] Quick PRNG question In-Reply-To: Message-ID: References: User-Agent: Alpine 2.00 (LNX 1167 2008-08-23) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed List-ID: <9front.9front.org> List-Help: X-Glyph: ➈ X-Bullshit: session engine core generator Look up xorshift and its variants It's about a million times simpler than Mersenne twister and some of the variants are much better at passing statistical tests. On Tue, 24 Sep 2019, Ethan Gardener wrote: > Hi Aiju! I remember some time back you laughed at Mersenne twister PRNG, citing another PRNG as simpler and better. What was the better PRNG? >