On Sat, Jun 22, 2019 at 01:59:18PM +0200, Dr. Jürgen Sauermann wrote:
> Looking at getrandom() and friends it seems like they have considerable
> portability problems (e.g. the header files are missing on Mint-17 but
> available on Mint-19). From that perspective using /dev/urandom seems
> to be a
Hi,
fixed in SVN 1172.
Monadic ⎕FIO[60] B now returns an integer random
value from /dev/urandom.
Dyadic 0 ⎕FIO[60] B is the
same as monadic ⎕FIO[60] B.
Dyadic 1
⎕FIO[60] B returns a
byte vector of length B instead
Hi Bill, Kacper,
I have stored the rl.apl file in the GNU APL Bits and
pieces directory:
https://www.gnu.org/software/apl/Bits_and_Pieces/rl.html
Storing it there brings it faster to the people because the
frequency of "official"
I used something similar installed as an user command, but it's a trivial
one-liner and only good reason to include it in distribution would be to
do it right while avoiding possible mistakes and pitfalls—which the
proposed code doesn't do. (Where does 4294967294 come from? Twice the
MINSTD
Hi Bill,
yes. But a better name would be good ("rl" isn;t too descriptive).
If I understand it correctly then the function reads a 4-byte
random number
from /dev/random.
On a second thought, wouldn't it be even better to make a separate
I read the man page on /dev/random; I wrote this package.
Can this function to seed quad-rl become part of gnu-apl?
I'm still struggling with how entropy, the tendency of the universe
toward disorder, be inventoried?
w
#! /usr/local/bin/apl --script
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