Math::Random::MT - The Mersenne Twister PRNG use Math::Random::MT; $gen = Math::Random::MT->new($seed); print $gen->rand(3); OR use Math::Random::MT qw(srand rand); # now srand and rand behave as usual. The Mersenne Twister is a pseudorandom number generator developed by Makoto Matsumoto and Takuji Nishimura. It is described in their paper at <URL:http://www.math.keio.ac.jp/~nisimura/random/doc/mt.ps>. This module implements two interfaces, as described in the synopsis above. It defines the following functions.

Functions
Creates a new generator and seeds it appropriately. Behaves exactly like Perl's builtin rand(), returning a number uniformly distributed in [0, $num) ($num defaults to 1). This is an alternative interface to the module's functionality. It behaves just like Perl's builtin srand(). <URL:http://www.math.keio.ac.jp/~matumoto/emt.html> Math::TrulyRandom For giving me the idea to write this module. Abhijit Menon-Sen <ams@wiw.org> Copyright 2001 Abhijit Menon-Sen. All rights reserved. This software is distributed under the terms of the Artistic License <URL:http://ams.wiw.org/code/artistic.txt>.