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Re: simpleEvtGen default EvtRandomEngine - PndMTRandomEngine Suggestion [message #9240 is a reply to message #9239] Wed, 26 August 2009 17:22 Go to previous messageGo to previous message
Elwin Dijck
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Hello all,

Perhaps you found this out already, but it seems that actually the Boost interface has changed: they initialize the Mersenne Twister (which actually needs a few hundred integers as initialization) now in a different way than in older versions. Instead of using a single integer, they want a function/functor that gives a sequence of values to initialize the internal state of the Mersenne Twister.

The Boost documentation says "The seeding from an integer was changed in April 2005 to address a weakness." and refers to here.

Also see how ROOT initializes the Mersenne Twister.

So casting will not help, for the newer Boost versions the argument to seed() must be a function or functor. Simplest is to make a small class that has an operator() that just returns the seed number, though it might be better to use one of the more advanced schemes.

Best regards,
Elwin Dijck
 
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