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]

Re: mt_rand

In article <dp912i$f7h$00$ 1@news.t-online.com>,
"Oliver Benning" <oliver@treibha us.ping.de> wrote:
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> 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?[/color]

Probably not.
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> If not, do you know a opensource php version of the mersenne twister?[/color]

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

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