Seedable JavaScript random number generator

Question

The JavaScript Math.random() function returns a random value between 0 and 1, automatically seeded based on the current time (similar to Java I believe). However, I don\'t

Answer 1

If you program in Typescript, I adapted the Mersenne Twister implementation that was brought in Christoph Henkelmann's answer to this thread as a typescript class:

/**
 * copied almost directly from Mersenne Twister implementation found in https://gist.github.com/banksean/300494
 * all rights reserved to him.
 */
export class Random {
    static N = 624;
    static M = 397;
    static MATRIX_A = 0x9908b0df;
    /* constant vector a */
    static UPPER_MASK = 0x80000000;
    /* most significant w-r bits */
    static LOWER_MASK = 0x7fffffff;
    /* least significant r bits */

    mt = new Array(Random.N);
    /* the array for the state vector */
    mti = Random.N + 1;
    /* mti==N+1 means mt[N] is not initialized */

    constructor(seed:number = null) {
        if (seed == null) {
            seed = new Date().getTime();
        }

        this.init_genrand(seed);
    }

    private init_genrand(s:number) {
        this.mt[0] = s >>> 0;
        for (this.mti = 1; this.mti < Random.N; this.mti++) {
            var s = this.mt[this.mti - 1] ^ (this.mt[this.mti - 1] >>> 30);
            this.mt[this.mti] = (((((s & 0xffff0000) >>> 16) * 1812433253) << 16) + (s & 0x0000ffff) * 1812433253)
                + this.mti;
            /* See Knuth TAOCP Vol2. 3rd Ed. P.106 for multiplier. */
            /* In the previous versions, MSBs of the seed affect   */
            /* only MSBs of the array mt[].                        */
            /* 2002/01/09 modified by Makoto Matsumoto             */
            this.mt[this.mti] >>>= 0;
            /* for >32 bit machines */
        }
    }

    /**
     * generates a random number on [0,0xffffffff]-interval
     * @private
     */
    private _nextInt32():number {
        var y:number;
        var mag01 = new Array(0x0, Random.MATRIX_A);
        /* mag01[x] = x * MATRIX_A  for x=0,1 */

        if (this.mti >= Random.N) { /* generate N words at one time */
            var kk:number;

            if (this.mti == Random.N + 1)   /* if init_genrand() has not been called, */
                this.init_genrand(5489);
            /* a default initial seed is used */

            for (kk = 0; kk < Random.N - Random.M; kk++) {
                y = (this.mt[kk] & Random.UPPER_MASK) | (this.mt[kk + 1] & Random.LOWER_MASK);
                this.mt[kk] = this.mt[kk + Random.M] ^ (y >>> 1) ^ mag01[y & 0x1];
            }
            for (; kk < Random.N - 1; kk++) {
                y = (this.mt[kk] & Random.UPPER_MASK) | (this.mt[kk + 1] & Random.LOWER_MASK);
                this.mt[kk] = this.mt[kk + (Random.M - Random.N)] ^ (y >>> 1) ^ mag01[y & 0x1];
            }
            y = (this.mt[Random.N - 1] & Random.UPPER_MASK) | (this.mt[0] & Random.LOWER_MASK);
            this.mt[Random.N - 1] = this.mt[Random.M - 1] ^ (y >>> 1) ^ mag01[y & 0x1];

            this.mti = 0;
        }

        y = this.mt[this.mti++];

        /* Tempering */
        y ^= (y >>> 11);
        y ^= (y << 7) & 0x9d2c5680;
        y ^= (y << 15) & 0xefc60000;
        y ^= (y >>> 18);

        return y >>> 0;
    }

    /**
     * generates an int32 pseudo random number
     * @param range: an optional [from, to] range, if not specified the result will be in range [0,0xffffffff]
     * @return {number}
     */
    nextInt32(range:[number, number] = null):number {
        var result = this._nextInt32();
        if (range == null) {
            return result;
        }

        return (result % (range[1] - range[0])) + range[0];
    }

    /**
     * generates a random number on [0,0x7fffffff]-interval
     */
    nextInt31():number {
        return (this._nextInt32() >>> 1);
    }

    /**
     * generates a random number on [0,1]-real-interval
     */
    nextNumber():number {
        return this._nextInt32() * (1.0 / 4294967295.0);
    }

    /**
     * generates a random number on [0,1) with 53-bit resolution
     */
    nextNumber53():number {
        var a = this._nextInt32() >>> 5, b = this._nextInt32() >>> 6;
        return (a * 67108864.0 + b) * (1.0 / 9007199254740992.0);
    }
}

you can than use it as follows:

var random = new Random(132);
random.nextInt32(); //return a pseudo random int32 number
random.nextInt32([10,20]); //return a pseudo random int in range [10,20]
random.nextNumber(); //return a a pseudo random number in range [0,1]

check the source for more methods.