Source: libmath-random-mt-perl Section: perl Priority: optional Build-Depends: debhelper (>= 9.20120312~), libtest-number-delta-perl, perl Maintainer: Debian Perl Group Uploaders: Salvatore Bonaccorso , Jonathan Yu Standards-Version: 3.9.6 Homepage: https://metacpan.org/release/Math-Random-MT Vcs-Git: git://anonscm.debian.org/pkg-perl/packages/libmath-random-mt-perl.git Vcs-Browser: https://anonscm.debian.org/cgit/pkg-perl/packages/libmath-random-mt-perl.git Testsuite: autopkgtest-pkg-perl Package: libmath-random-mt-perl Architecture: any Depends: ${misc:Depends}, ${perl:Depends}, ${shlibs:Depends} Description: Perl implementation of the Mersenne Twister algorithm Math::Random::MT provides an implementation of the Mersenne Twister pseudorandom number generator algorithm developed by Makoto Matsumoto and Takuji Nishimura. . It is related to but a different algorithm than a previous work by the same authors - the TT800 algorithm, which keeps less state data (MT uses 624 numbers compared to TT800's 25). Consequently, the period is much larger - 2^19937-1 compared to TT800's 2^800-1. For comparison, ISAAC's period is 2^8295 values on average. . For more information, peruse M. Matsumoto and T. Nishimura's paper: .