# Random numbers

## The default random number generator

## Creating random number generators

## Generating random numbers

## Supported random number generators

By default igraph uses the MT19937 generator. Prior to igraph version 0.6, the generator supplied by the standard C library was used. This means the GLIBC2 generator on GNU libc 2 systems, and maybe the BSD RAND generator on others. The RAND generator was removed due to poor statistical properties in version 0.10. The PCG32 generator was added in version 0.10.