Re: [Bug-gnubg] Fwd: Submitting my first gnubg patch contribution...

[Gary Wong]

Eli Liang wrote:
> Please accept the attached gzipped patch file with a fix for a serious 
> initialization bug in MT19937 which affected all uses of MT19937 that only 
> required a PRN after seeding the generator (this means backgammon among 
> other things).

Thanks very much for the patch.  I have committed it to the gnubg CVS
repository now, and it should show up in snapshots dated 020802 and later.

(I modified the patch in several small ways -- I adjusted the seed value
so that the example in the manual agrees as closely as possible, and I
omitted the Brent/Gimeno/Knuth procedure, since it is intended to fix a
problem with Knuth's lagged Fibonacci generator and I am not convinced
it makes any improvement to MT.)

Cheers,
Gary.
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