...one of the most highly
regarded and expertly designed C++ library projects in the
world.
— Herb Sutter and Andrei
Alexandrescu, C++
Coding Standards
minstd_rand
// In header: <boost/random/linear_congruential.hpp> typedef linear_congruential_engine< uint32_t, 48271, 0, 2147483647 > minstd_rand;
The specialization minstd_rand was suggested in
"Random Number Generators: Good ones are hard to find", Stephen K. Park and Keith W. Miller, Communications of the ACM, Vol. 31, No. 10, October 1988, pp. 1192-1201