sci@gentoo.org Gentoo Science Project jeffrey@icurse.nl Jeffrey Lin tamiko@gentoo.org Matthias Maier The purpose of Double precision SIMD-oriented Fast Mersenne Twister (dSFMT) is to speed up the generation by avoiding the expensive conversion of integer to double (floating point). dSFMT directly generates double precision floating point pseudorandom numbers which have the IEEE Standard for Binary Floating-Point Arithmetic (ANSI/IEEE Std 754-1985) format. dSFMT is only available on the CPUs which use IEEE 754 format double precision floating point numbers.