How to use MT (or similar) RNG algorithm in CPP implementation?

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I want to implement MT alg in CPP (I just can't use C++11 sadly) I've found a lot of algorithms like SFMT, dSFMT, some versions of Tiny MT etc; but as I saw the documentation of those algs, I think they works for range like <0,2) (from doxygen documentation)

Need any ideas how to replace basic RNG algorithm

SRAND(TIME(NULL))

With something better

score 1 · Accepted Answer · answered May 08 '14 at 08:35

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Boost.Random provides quite a few thread-safe random generators, and they work with C++98.

answered May 08 '14 at 08:35

Maxim Egorushkin

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Is "thread-safe" == no global state, or are there any parallel rng i don't know. – hansmaad May 08 '14 at 08:45

score 1 · Answer 2 · answered May 08 '14 at 08:43

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If you dont want Boost dependency there are multiple standalone MT implementations

Mersenne Twister 1

Mersenne Twister 2

Mersenne Twister 3..n

answered May 08 '14 at 08:43

Blaz Bratanic

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How to use MT (or similar) RNG algorithm in CPP implementation?

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