Mersenne Twister has a huge state, and if you have to use the MT (you need a very long period), you will probably want to be able to initialize it properly. For

Mersenne Twister has a huge state, and if you have to use the MT (you need a very long period), you will probably want to be able to initialize it properly. For the common use case is a linear congruential generator which is initialized with just one integer.