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mwc-random: Fast, high quality pseudo random number generation

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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.

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Dependencies base (<5), math-functions (>=0.2.1.0), primitive, time, vector (>=0.7) [details]
License BSD-3-Clause
Copyright 2009, 2010, 2011 Bryan O'Sullivan
Author Bryan O'Sullivan <bos@serpentine.com>
Maintainer Bryan O'Sullivan <bos@serpentine.com>
Category Math, Statistics
Home page https://github.com/bos/mwc-random
Bug tracker https://github.com/bos/mwc-random/issues
Source repo head: git clone git://github.com/bos/mwc-random
head: hg clone https://bitbucket.org/bos/mwc-random
Uploaded by AlexeyKhudyakov at 2017-04-27T13:21:01Z
Distributions Arch:0.15.1.0, Debian:0.14.0.0, Fedora:0.15.0.2, FreeBSD:0.13.3.2, LTSHaskell:0.15.1.0, NixOS:0.15.1.0, Stackage:0.15.1.0, openSUSE:0.15.1.0
Reverse Dependencies 123 direct, 4671 indirect [details]
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Readme for mwc-random-0.13.6.0

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Efficient, general purpose pseudo-random number generation

This package provides the System.Random.MWC module, a Haskell library for generating high-quality pseudo-random numbers in a space- and time-efficient way.

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Please report bugs via the github issue tracker.

Master git git repository:

  • git clone git://github.com/bos/mwc-random.git

There's also a Mercurial mirror:

  • hg clone http://bitbucket.org/bos/mwc-random

(You can create and contribute changes using either Mercurial or git.)

Authors

This library is written and maintained by Bryan O'Sullivan, bos@serpentine.com.