On Monday, 16 November 2015 at 13:34:41 UTC, Kagamin wrote:
> On Monday, 16 November 2015 at 10:47:36 UTC, Marc Schütz wrote:
>> Hmmm... why is `unpredictableSeed` only a `uint`? Surely most PRNGs have more than 32 bits of internal state?
>
> Maybe it's only worth 32 random bits? There's a rangified example too: http://dlang.org/phobos/std_random.html#.MersenneTwisterEngine.seed.2

No, to get a period of 2^19937 you need 19937 bits or 2-3 KiB… ;)

On Monday, 16 November 2015 at 14:21:02 UTC, Ola Fosheim Grøstad wrote:
> No, to get a period of 2^19937 you need 19937 bits or 2-3 KiB… ;)

This computes out of context :) but...