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Document number: N4316

Date: 2014-11-08

std::rand replacement, revision 2

by Zhihao Yuan

Excerpt:

Changes since N4217

• Rename the seeding utility to reseed, which resets the distributions’ states if needed, based on SG6 comments.
• Cleanup the wording with the term “unpredictable state” stolen from Walter’s paper[1].
• Ask the question about exposing the per-thread engine in Future Issues.
• Update motivation to reflect the status quo.