mwc-random

Fast, high quality pseudo random number generation

Version on this page:	0.13.4.0
LTS Haskell 24.24:	0.15.2.0
Stackage Nightly 2025-12-19:	0.15.2.0
Latest on Hackage:	0.15.2.0

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BSD-3-Clause licensed and maintained by Bryan O'Sullivan

This version can be pinned in stack with:mwc-random-0.13.4.0@sha256:520393e8f90adac4e5e414c20d17bbf70f5e399aee9c29d0b80857cba3e803c2,2324

Module documentation for 0.13.4.0

System
- System.Random
  - System.Random.MWC
    - System.Random.MWC.CondensedTable
    - System.Random.MWC.Distributions

Depends on 4 packages(full list with versions):

base, primitive, time, vector

Used by 17 packages in nightly-2016-04-10(full list with versions):

clustering, conduit-combinators, cql-io, criterion, engine-io, foldl, metrics, monad-par, mwc-probability, random-source, rng-utils, sampling, snap, Spintax, statistics, vector-algorithms, yesod-core

Efficient, general purpose pseudo-random number generation

This package provides the System.Random.MWC module, a Haskell library for generating high-quality pseudo-random numbers in a space- and time-efficient way.

Get involved!

Please report bugs via the github issue tracker.

Master git git repository:

git clone git://github.com/bos/mwc-random.git

There’s also a Mercurial mirror:

hg clone http://bitbucket.org/bos/mwc-random

(You can create and contribute changes using either Mercurial or git.)

Authors

This library is written and maintained by Bryan O’Sullivan, [email protected].