From: "ara.t.howard" <ara.t.howard@...>
Date: 2008-04-11T03:27:53+09:00
Subject: Re: C rand() in Ruby


On Apr 10, 2008, at 10:20 AM, Chad Perrin wrote:
> Is there some simple way to make use of C's rand() from within Ruby?
> The daughter of someone I know is writing some toy scripts to compare
> PRNG results for a science fair project . . .

you mean other than just using

   rand

??

you *can* directly call the C function using ruby/dl (see examples in  
dist)

cheers.

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