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In November 1999, Jeet Sukumaran proposed a framework based on virtual functions,
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and later sketched a template-based approach. Ed Brey pointed out that Microsoft
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Visual C++ does not support in-class member initializations and suggested the
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enum workaround. Dave Abrahams highlighted quantization issues.
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The first public release of this random number library materialized in March
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2000 after extensive discussions on the boost mailing list. Many thanks to
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Beman Dawes for his original min_rand class, portability fixes, documentation
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suggestions, and general guidance. Harry Erwin sent a header file which provided
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additional insight into the requirements. Ed Brey and Beman Dawes wanted an
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iterator-like interface.
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Beman Dawes managed the formal review, during which Matthias Troyer, Csaba
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Szepesvari, and Thomas Holenstein gave detailed comments. The reviewed version
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became an official part of boost on 17 June 2000.
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Gary Powell contributed suggestions for code cleanliness. Dave Abrahams and
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Howard Hinnant suggested to move the basic generator templates from <code class="computeroutput"><span class="keyword">namespace</span> <span class="identifier">boost</span><span class="special">::</span><span class="identifier">detail</span></code>
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to <code class="computeroutput"><span class="identifier">boost</span><span class="special">::</span><span class="identifier">random</span></code>.
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Ed Brey asked to remove superfluous warnings and helped with <code class="computeroutput"><span class="identifier">uint64_t</span></code> handling. Andreas Scherer tested
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with MSVC. Matthias Troyer contributed a <code class="computeroutput"><a class="link" href="reference.html#header.boost.random.lagged_fibonacci_hpp" title="Header <boost/random/lagged_fibonacci.hpp>">lagged
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Fibonacci generator</a></code>. Michael Stevens found a bug in the copy semantics
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of <code class="computeroutput"><a class="link" href="../boost/random/normal_distribution.html" title="Class template normal_distribution">normal_distribution</a></code>
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and suggested documentation improvements.
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