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bug#9103: 23.3.50; random* from cl does not support the whole range of i
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Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen |
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bug#9103: 23.3.50; random* from cl does not support the whole range of integers |
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Sun, 11 Sep 2011 05:20:00 +0200 |
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Glenn Morris <rgm@gnu.org> writes:
> Glenn Morris wrote:
>
>> Why does random* even need to exist? What can it do that plain random
>> cannot?
>
> ...non-integer results, it seems.
`random*' ends with
(* (/ n '8388608e0) lim)
if LIM isn't an integer. Anybody willing to hazard a guess why
8388608.0 was chosen?
And would it make sense to just replace it all with a call to `random',
and then make it into a floating point if it floats?
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