#32145 [NEW]: Mersenne Twister seed option required

From: hardeman at nmni dot net Operating system: win PHP version: 4.3.10 PHP Bug Type: Feature/Change Request Bug description: Mersenne Twister seed option required Description: ------------ Unless the PHP documentation is not up-to-date, the only seed option for the Mersenne Twister RNG is a 32-bit integer. The original (updated) MT implementation (see http://www.math.sci.hiroshima-u.ac.jp/~m-mat/MT/MT2002/emt19937ar.html), however, allows for seed arrays of arbitrary length to better exploit the large period of the RNG. It would be nice if this option were built in in future versions of PHP so that I myself and probably quite a few other PHP users won't have to implement the RNG in PHP code itself or create a private extension in C++. Adding this feature to PHP should not require a lot of effort as other implementations are readily available. -- Edit bug report at http://bugs.php.net/?id=32145&edit=1 -- Try a CVS snapshot (php4): http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=32145&r=trysnapshot4 Try a CVS snapshot (php5.0): http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=32145&r=trysnapshot50 Try a CVS snapshot (php5.1): http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=32145&r=trysnapshot51 Fixed in CVS: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=32145&r=fixedcvs Fixed in release: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=32145&r=alreadyfixed Need backtrace: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=32145&r=needtrace Need Reproduce Script: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=32145&r=needscript Try newer version: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=32145&r=oldversion Not developer issue: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=32145&r=support Expected behavior: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=32145&r=notwrong Not enough info: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=32145&r=notenoughinfo Submitted twice: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=32145&r=submittedtwice register_globals: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=32145&r=globals PHP 3 support discontinued: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=32145&r=php3 Daylight Savings: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=32145&r=dst IIS Stability: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=32145&r=isapi Install GNU Sed: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=32145&r=gnused Floating point limitations: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=32145&r=float No Zend Extensions: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=32145&r=nozend MySQL Configuration Error: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=32145&r=mysqlcfg