Better RNG

[Goraan2012]

I've been trying to find a better random number generator than the built-in one. Many people have said that the Mersenne Twister is good, but I can't get it to work, either due to miscoding or something I need to download. If there's another one, or someone knows how to get it to work, please let me know.

[firedraco]

boost has a random number generator library. You could try that. (It's also the one that's going into the next C++ standard so...)

[Moschops]

The GMP library http://gmplib.org/ is simple to use and link against, and comes with a nice RNG.

[1vRz3TCk]

I've been trying to find a better random number generator than the built-in one.

Better in what respect?

[hanst99]

I assume distribution?

[1vRz3TCk]

Also, what is the PRNG going to be used for?

[DSLq5Di1]

Assuming you have a compiler that supports C++0x/TR1,

#include <iostream>
#include <random>
using namespace std;

int main()
{
    random_device seed;
    mt19937 engine(seed()); // mersenne twister

    uniform_int_distribution<> dist(0, 100);
 
    for (int i = 0; i < 10; i++)
    {
        cout << dist(engine) << endl;
    }

    return 0;
}