Undocumented change to Mersenne Twister breaks repeatability

[Jamie Lokier]

Brian Gough wrote:
> Not sure why you don't have them but there are entries for the updated
> [mt19937] seeding procedure in the NEWS file and rng/ChangeLog of
> gsl-0.7, and later versions.

Sorry, my tired eyes.  I looked in both and somehow missed both.

>  > I would have expected a new mt19937 generator to have a new name.  It's
>  > too late now, but could the old generator be reinstated under a
>  > different name, perhaps mt19937_1998?
> 
> I've made the old generator available in the current CVS version as
> requested.

Thanks,
-- Jamie Lokier