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Re: C rand() in Ruby

ara.t.howard

4/10/2008 6:28:00 PM


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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Joel VanderWerf

4/10/2008 6:32:00 PM

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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

That would call ruby's mersenne twister, AFAIK.

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ara.t.howard

4/10/2008 7:17:00 PM

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On Apr 10, 2008, at 12:32 PM, Joel VanderWerf wrote:
> That would call ruby's mersenne twister, AFAIK.

yeah - i just wasn't clear on what was being asked - ruby/dl is the
ticket me thinks...

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