From: Peter Stephenson <pws@pwstephenson.fsnet.co.uk>
To: zsh-workers@sunsite.dk (Zsh hackers list)
Subject: Re: RANDOMSMALL <range> [ <seed> ]
Date: Tue, 08 Jun 2004 22:20:09 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20040608212010.5B3F68652@pwstephenson.fsnet.co.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: "Dave Yost"'s message of "Tue, 08 Jun 2004 11:09:53 PDT." <pdy988306110402bcebb015c2cb@[209.128.98.50]>
> Zsh's RANDOM function is deficient.
It's limited by POSIX, though I haven't checked how much. Look at the
math function rand48 in the zsh/mathfunc package --- search zshmodules.
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Peter Stephenson <pws@pwstephenson.fsnet.co.uk>
Work: pws@csr.com
Web: http://www.pwstephenson.fsnet.co.uk
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2004-06-08 21:14 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2004-06-01 18:01 zsh malloc bug Dave Yost
2004-06-02 9:32 ` Peter Stephenson
2004-06-02 18:21 ` Dave Yost
2004-06-08 13:20 ` Peter Stephenson
2004-06-08 18:09 ` RANDOMSMALL <range> [ <seed> ] Dave Yost
2004-06-08 21:20 ` Peter Stephenson [this message]
2004-06-08 21:51 ` PATCH: " Peter Stephenson
2004-06-08 21:55 ` Larry Bakst
2004-06-16 19:13 ` zsh malloc bug Dave Yost
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