Why is the period of Mersenne Twister prng $2^{19937}-1$ and not $2^{19968}$?
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05-11-2019 - |
Question
For the Mersenne Twister prng, wikipedia, I feel the period exponent should be the size of the MT array, $32\cdot 624 = 19968$.
How come the exponent is 19937 instead?
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