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While generating integer sequences of n elements using the the SFMT19937 BRNG, I noticed that the output consisted of exactly n elements, while I should have received 4n elements, according to the Intel VSL Notes documentation.
I also found that the SFMT19937 WordSize obtained from the VSLBrngProperties struct returns 4, when I expected this to be 16.
Is this the correct behavior for the SFMT19937 BRNG? If so, how would I go about obtaining all 128 bits of output?
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Hi Joe,
yes, this is the correct behavior of the SFMT19937 BRNG. We should fix the documentation, thanks for letting us know about the issue. In order to get n 128 bit outputs from the UniformBits() routine, pass 4 n as vector size into this function. Please, let me know, if it addresses your question.
Andrey
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Thanks Andrey. That clears up part of the puzzle, but I have another related question:
Lets say I start with 2 identical SFMT19937 steams, both seeded with the decimal value 177. Using the first stream, if I request a single uniformly-distributed integer value from the uniformbits() routine and then convert the integer value to a real by dividing by 2^32, the resulting real value is 0.306946337223052978515625
Using the second stream, if I request a single uniformly-distributed real value from the Uniform() routine, the value returned is 0.806946337223052978515625
Why has 0.5 been added to the real value in the Uniform() routine?
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Hi Joe,
Transformation of the 32 bit unsigned integer u into uniformly distributed on the interval [a,b) real number r inside of SFMT19937 relies on the rule: r = (int)u * (b-a) / 2^32 + (b-a)/2. The choice of the transformation is dictated by the performance considerations. We should fix the description of the generator in the documentation. Thank you.
Please, let me know, if it helps.
Andrey
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