Bug#653133: ITP: libmath-random-mt-perl-perl -- Pure-Perl Mersenne-Twister module to generate random numbers

December 24th, 2011 - 06:40 am ET by Florent Angly | Report spam
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Owner: Florent Angly <florent.angly@gmail.com>

* Package name : libmath-random-mt-perl-perl
Version : 1.06
Upstream Author : Dr James Freeman <airmedical@gmail.com>
* URL : hhttp://search.cpan.org/dist/Math-Random-MT-Perl/
* License : Artistic License 2.0
Programming Lang: Perl
Description : Pure-Perl Mersenne-Twister module to generate random numbers

Math::Random::MT::Perl is a pure-Perl implementation of the Mersenne Twister algorithm. Mersenne Twister is a 32 bit pseudorandom number generator developed by Makoto Matsumoto and Takuji Nishimura. The algorithm is characterised by a very uniform distribution but is not cryptographically secure. What this means in real terms is that it is fine for modeling but no good for crypto.

This module implements the same pseudorandom number generator found in Math::Random::MT (libmath-random-mt-perl Debian package), which is implemented in C/XS.



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#1 Ansgar Burchardt
January 03rd, 2012 - 07:10 am ET | Report spam
Hi,

On 12/24/2011 12:32 PM, Florent Angly wrote:
* Package name : libmath-random-mt-perl-perl
This module implements the same pseudorandom number generator found in Math::Random::MT
(libmath-random-mt-perl Debian package), which is implemented in C/XS.



What would be the use of the pure-perl version in Debian? The XS
implementation is available on all architectures (except hurd-i386 where
the package failed to build).

Regards,
Ansgar



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