r34802 - /trunk/libmath-random-mt-perl/debian/control

[jawnsy-guest at users.alioth.debian.org]

Author: jawnsy-guest
Date: Tue May  5 16:09:01 2009
New Revision: 34802

URL: http://svn.debian.org/wsvn/pkg-perl/?sc=1&rev=34802
Log:
Updated description

Modified:
    trunk/libmath-random-mt-perl/debian/control

Modified: trunk/libmath-random-mt-perl/debian/control
URL: http://svn.debian.org/wsvn/pkg-perl/trunk/libmath-random-mt-perl/debian/control?rev=34802&op=diff
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--- trunk/libmath-random-mt-perl/debian/control (original)
+++ trunk/libmath-random-mt-perl/debian/control Tue May  5 16:09:01 2009
@@ -12,11 +12,18 @@
 Package: libmath-random-mt-perl
 Architecture: any
 Depends: ${misc:Depends}, ${perl:Depends}, ${shlibs:Depends}
+Suggests: libmath-random-isaac-perl, libmath-random-tt800-perl
 Description: Perl implementation of the Mersenne Twister algorithm
  Math::Random::MT provides an implementation of the Mersenne Twister
  pseudorandom number generator algorithm 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>.
  .
+ It is related to but a different algorithm than a previous work by
+ the same authors - the TT800 algorithm, which keeps less state data
+ (MT uses 624 numbers compared to TT800's 25). Consequently, the
+ period is much larger - 2^19937-1 compared to TT800's 2^800-1. For
+ comparison, ISAAC's period is 2^8295 values on average.
+ .
  This module implements both a procedural and object oriented interface.
  See the perldoc for details on using it.