From: matz@... (Yukihiro Matsumoto)
Date: 2003-01-26T22:59:59+09:00
Subject: Re: Bignum + rand()

Hi,

In message "Re: Bignum + rand()"
    on 03/01/26, ts <decoux@moulon.inra.fr> 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)

Oops, I somehow removed T_BIGNUM code from 1.8.0, I will fix.

							matz.