The Mersenne Twister is a pseudorandom number generator (PRNG). It is by far the most widely used general-purpose PRNG. Its name derives from the fact that its period length is chosen to be a Mersenne prime.
In mathematics, a Mersenne prime is a prime number that is one less than a power of two.
More generally, numbers of the form Mn = 2n − 1 without the primality requirement are called Mersenne numbers.
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