NAME

Mcrypt - Perl extension for a Mersenne Twister PRGN implementation with context.

SYNOPSIS

use Rand::MersenneTwister;

# Object-oriented methods

# New object context optionally seeded.
$r = Rand::MersenneTwister->new( [$seed] );

# Seed or reseed this PRNG context.
$r->seed($number); 

# fetch the next random number in the sequance.
# between 0 and 1
my $random_number = $r->rand;
# between 0 and $v
my $random_number = $r->rand($v);

# If the $r goes out of context, it is freed.

DESCRIPTION

This module wraps a fast, C implementation of a Mersenne Twister-based PRNG. =head1 Exported constants

The predefined groups of exports in the use statements are as follows:

use Rand::MersenneTwister;

Exports the following functions: mt_init, mt_free, mt_seed, mt_rand.

EXAMPLES

use Rand::MersenneTwister;

my $r = Rand::MersenneTwister->new();
$r->seed();
my $randmon_number = $r->rand(100);

AUTHOR

George Schlossnagle <george@omniti.com> Theo Schlossnagle <jesus@omniti.com>

SEE ALSO

http://www.math.keio.ac.jp/~matumoto/mt.html

For the less worldly:

http://www.math.keio.ac.jp/~matumoto/emt.html