From: Chad Perrin <perrin@...>
Date: 2008-04-11T03:59:54+09:00
Subject: Re: C rand() in Ruby

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On Fri, Apr 11, 2008 at 03:32:09AM +0900, Joel VanderWerf wrote:
> ara.t.howard wrote:
> >
> >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
>=20
> That would call ruby's mersenne twister, AFAIK.

Indeed -- which is why I was asking about C's rand() function.

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