mt_rand

[Oliver Benning]

Happy New Year!

is there a way to save the internal position of the mersenne twister
(mt_rand) at the end of the php script (i.e. to session or database) and
start it again using the last generated number?

If not, do you know a opensource php version of the mersenne twister?

Regards,
Oliver

[Philip Ronan]

In article <dp*************@news.t-online.com>,
"Oliver Benning" <ol****@treibhaus.ping.de> wrote:

is there a way to save the internal position of the mersenne twister
(mt_rand) at the end of the php script (i.e. to session or database) and
start it again using the last generated number?
Probably not.
If not, do you know a opensource php version of the mersenne twister?

It shouldn't be difficult to adapt one of these:
<http://www.math.sci.hiroshima-u.ac.jp/~m-mat/MT/VERSIONS/eversions.html>

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