From: ts <decoux@...>
Date: 2003-01-26T21:48:21+09:00
Subject: Re: Bignum + rand()

>>>>> "Y" == Yukihiro Matsumoto <matz@ruby-lang.org> writes:

Y> rand() should work for any numbers.  Could you tell me more info to
Y> reproduce the exception?

pigeon% ./ruby -ve 'p rand(9999999999999999999999999)'
ruby 1.8.0 (2003-01-20) [i686-linux]
-e:1:in `rand': bignum too big to convert into `int' (RangeError)
        from -e:1
pigeon% 


 rb_f_rand() has only the case T_FLOAT, T_NIL and default (NUM2LONG give
 the error)


Guy Decoux