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= Mersenne Twister
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The Mersenne Twister is a widely used pseudorandom number generator (PRNG) that was developed by Makoto Matsumoto and Takuji Nishimura in 1997. It is named after the Mersenne prime, which is a prime number of the form \\(2^p - 1\\).