What is Mersenne Twister used for?

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What is Mersenne Twister used for?​

Mersenne Twister. The Mersenne Twister is a pseudorandom number generator (PRNG). It is by far the most widely used general-purpose PRNG. Its name derives from the fact that its period length is chosen to be a Mersenne prime.

What state is needed for a Mersenne Twister implementation?​

As should be apparent from the above description, the state needed for a Mersenne Twister implementation is an array of n values of w bits each. To initialize the array, a w-bit seed value is used to supply x 0 through x n − 1 by setting x 0 to the seed value and thereafter setting. for i from 1 to n−1.
What is the word length of the Mersenne Twister algorithm?
The most commonly used version of the Mersenne Twister algorithm is based on the Mersenne prime 2 19937 −1. The standard implementation of that, MT19937, uses a 32-bit word length. There is another implementation (with five variants) that uses a 64-bit word length, MT19937-64; it generates a different sequence.
Is the Mersenne Twister PRNG in Stata legal?
The Mersenne Twister is the default PRNG in Stata, the other one is KISS, for compatibility with older versions of Stata. Permissively-licensed and patent-free for all variants except CryptMT. Passes numerous tests for statistical randomness, including the Diehard tests and most, but not all of the TestU01 tests.

How many random numbers does the Mersenne Twister generate?​

This demo will give you the first 10 random numbers generated by the Mersenne Twister. My C++ implementation returns exactly the same values as the original code written by Makoto Matsumoto and Takuji Nishimura.

Is there a JavaScript version of the Mersenne Twister algorithm?​

There are only a handful Javascript versions of the Mersenne Twister algorithms and most of them are pretty slow. My Javascript port computes exactly the same numbers as the C++ version (when using the same seed value). Firefox 31 (Windows) can spit out about 44 million random numbers per second on a three-year-old Intel Core i7 @ 3.4 GHz.