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From: Bart Schaefer <schaefer@brasslantern.com>
To: Clinton Bunch <cdbunch@zentaur.org>
Cc: zsh-workers@zsh.org
Subject: Re: use of rand() in zsh
Date: Mon, 10 Oct 2022 20:34:02 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAH+w=7YWKY5bf8TVdGQY7iDd3CUKzaHUxSuRRDGawtt06oPffA@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <efdac912-938c-67e5-6ad9-22b978e8156e@zentaur.org>

On Mon, Oct 10, 2022 at 6:32 PM Clinton Bunch <cdbunch@zentaur.org> wrote:
>
> I wonder if it wouldn't be worthwhile to create a module that gave
> access to better sources of random numbers on the systems that support them.

zmodload zsh/mathfunc
print $(( rand48() ))


  reply	other threads:[~2022-10-11  3:34 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2022-10-10 23:32 Clinton Bunch
2022-10-11  1:14 ` Bart Schaefer
2022-10-11  1:27   ` Clinton Bunch
2022-10-11  1:32     ` Clinton Bunch
2022-10-11  3:34       ` Bart Schaefer [this message]
2022-10-11  3:44         ` Clinton Bunch
2022-10-11  6:31           ` Roman Perepelitsa
2022-10-11 12:51             ` Clinton Bunch
2022-10-11 13:23               ` Peter Stephenson
2022-10-11 14:15                 ` Clinton Bunch
2022-10-11 14:48                   ` Peter Stephenson
2022-10-11 12:35   ` Clinton Bunch
2022-10-11 13:18     ` Peter Stephenson

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