What random number generator is used for Numeric and SciPy?

[Robert Kern]

The Helmbolds wrote:
> 
> Python bases its random number generators on the Mersenne Twister.
>  
> Do Numeric and SciPy also base their random number generators on the
> Mersenne Twister? If not, what do they use?

Numeric, numarray and scipy 0.3 use RANLIB.

  http://www.stat.umn.edu/HELP/ranlib-docs/ranlib-docs.html

scipy_core (Numeric's and numarray's replacement) and, by extension, scipy 0.4
use the Mersenne Twister.

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