Hi Chri, On 22. Apr, 2015, at 22:50, Christophe Gragnic <christophegrag...@gmail.com> wrote:
. . > > Now the question. I found discrepancies between PicoLisp: > : (rand 1 1000) > -> 1 > : (rand 1 1000) > -> 934 > : (bye) > > And Ersatz > : (rand 1 1000) > -> 1 > : (rand 1 1000) > -> 967 > : (bye) > > I tried to inspect the source for getting some explanation with no luck. > PicoLisp > https://code.google.com/p/picolisp/source/browse/src/big.c#1213 > Ersatz: > https://code.google.com/p/picolisp/source/browse/ersatz/fun.src#3325 > Is there a reason for those different behaviours ? > > Last thing (mostly for Jon), I read that the PicoLisp generator is > a 64-bit linear congruential random generator (both pil64 and pil32) > with the multiplier 6364136223846793005. > I'd like to implement this generator for EmuLisp. Any advice ? > Any objection ? > > > chri Feel free to give it a try. As EmuLisp uses JavaScript numbers, 6364136223846793005 is too many digits, but you may find a way around it. /Jon-- UNSUBSCRIBE: mailto:picolisp@software-lab.de?subject=Unsubscribe
