Math::Random is a Perl port of the C version of randlib, which is a suite of routines for generating random deviates. See "RANDLIB" for more information. This port supports all of the distributions from which the Fortran and C versions generate devia...

The Mersenne Twister is a pseudorandom number generator developed by Makoto Matsumoto and Takuji Nishimura. It is described in their paper at <URL:http://www.math.keio.ac.jp/~nisimura/random/doc/mt.ps>. This algorithm has a very uniform distribution ...

CPAN contains many modules for generating random numbers in various ways and from various probability distributions using pseudo-random number generation algorithms or other entropy sources. (The "SEE ALSO" section has some examples.) Unfortunately, ...

This module generates random integers k that follow the Zipf distribution, P(k) = C / k^s for k = [ 1, 2, .. N ], s a fixed exponent and C a normalisation constant. It is related to the Zeta distribution (infinite N) and Pareto distribution (continuo...

As with other Pseudo-Random Number Generator (PRNG) algorithms like the Mersenne Twister (see Math::Random::MT), this algorithm is designed to take some seed information and produce seemingly random results as output. However, ISAAC (Indirection, Shi...

This perl extension module implements M. Matsumoto's twisted generalized shift register generator called TT800 as described in his article published in ACM Transactions on Modelling and Computer Simulation, Vol. 4, No. 3, 1994, pages 254-266....

This module includes a minimal PCG (Permuted Congruential Generator) for random numbers <http://www.pcg-random.org/> plus utility routines for PCG (Procedural Content Generation). A RANDOM BENCHMARK This pits the (very bad) core "rand" function again...

This module transforms uniformly spaced random numbers into random numbers that follow the Cauchy Probability Density Function (*PDF*). A more general transformation method is implemented in Math::Random::AcceptReject. The algorithm is from Blobel et...

Random number generator for arbitrarily large integers. Uses the Math::BigInt module to handle the generated values. This module exports a single function called random_bigint, which returns a single random Math::BigInt number of the specified range ...

This is a bundle of modules related to random numbers. Please have a look at Bundle::Math. If you would like to see a specific module included in a future version of this bundle, please send me an email or use rt.cpan.org....

This module is intended to provide a cryptographically-secure replacement for Perl's built-in "rand" function. "Crytographically secure", in this case, means: * No matter how many numbers you see generated by the random number generator, you cannot g...

Math::Random::Discrete generates discrete random variables according to a user-defined distribution. It uses Walker's alias method to create random values in O(1) time....

This module is a straight forward implementation of Xorshift PRNG proposed by G. Marsaglia in 2003. Note that the algorithm is extremely fast and passes the Diehard test <http://www.stat.fsu.edu/pub/diehard/> though, is not reliable enough statistica...

Math::Random::Brownian is a perl module for calculating a realization of either fractional Brownian Motion, or a fractional Gaussian sequence. This is accomplished using the various methods. Currently, the C code for this module is due to Ton Dieker ...

Pure Perl implementation of the Mersenne Twister algorithm. Mersenne Twister is a 32 bit pseudorandom number generator developed by Makoto Matsumoto and Takuji Nishimura. The algorithm is characterised by a very uniform distribution but is not crypto...

The Mersenne Twister is a fast pseudorandom number generator (PRNG) that is capable of providing large volumes (> 10^6004) of "high quality" pseudorandom data to applications that may exhaust available "truly" random data sources or system-provided P...

See Math::Random::ISAAC for the full description....

See Math::Random::ISAAC for the full description....

Math::BigInt::Random::OO is a module for generating arbitrarily large random integers from a discrete, uniform distribution. The numbers are returned as Math::BigInt objects....

This module transforms uniformly spaced random variable realizations into realizations that follow the Skew-Normal (*SN*) Probability Density Function (*PDF*). We accept following definition of the Skew-Normal Distribution: 1-dimensional SN is determ...