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From: "Thomas Neidhart (JIRA)" <jira@apache.org>
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Subject: [jira] [Commented] (MATH-899) A random crash of MersenneTwister
 random generator
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Thomas Neidhart commented on MATH-899:
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The moment you did the check "if (mti >= N)" another thread could already have updated mti, invalidating your program flow.
                
> A random crash of MersenneTwister random generator
> --------------------------------------------------
>
>                 Key: MATH-899
>                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/MATH-899
>             Project: Commons Math
>          Issue Type: Bug
>    Affects Versions: 3.0
>         Environment: Windows 7, JDK 1.7.05
>            Reporter: Alexander Nozik
>            Priority: Minor
>
> There is a very small probability that MersenneTwister generator gives a following error: 
> java.lang.ArrayIndexOutOfBoundsException: 624
> in MersenneTwister.java line 253
> The error is completely random and its probability is about 1e-8.
> UPD: The problem most probably arises only in multy-thread mode.

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