BSD Portsmath/hs-mwc-random 0.15.2.0nb3 NetBSD
Fast, high quality pseudo random number generation
- System
- NetBSD
- Repository
- pkgsrc
- Maintainer
- [email protected]
- License
- 2-clause-bsd
- Categories
- math
- Package size
- 520.1 KiB, 8445.8 KiB installed
Description
This package contains code for generating high quality random numbers that follow either a uniform or normal distribution. The generated numbers are suitable for use in statistical applications.
The uniform PRNG uses Marsaglia's MWC256 (also known as MWC8222) multiply-with-carry generator, which has a period of 2^8222 and fares well in tests of randomness. It is also extremely fast, between 2 and 3 times faster than the Mersenne Twister.
Compared to the mersenne-random package, this package has a more convenient API, is faster, and supports more statistical distributions.
Install
Binary package:
pkgin install hs-mwc-randomFrom pkgsrc:
cd /usr/pkgsrc/math/hs-mwc-random && make install cleanPackages
The version each package repository carries. “-” means the repository builds no package of it, “n/a” that there is no such repository.
| Repository | Version |
|---|---|
| NetBSD 10.1 x86_64 | 0.15.2.0nb3 |
| NetBSD 10.1 aarch64 | 0.15.2.0nb3 |
| SmartOS / illumos x86_64 | 0.15.2.0nb3 |
| macOS 15 arm64 | 0.15.2.0nb3 |