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Re: exposing seed_random to lisp?
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Paul Eggert |
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Re: exposing seed_random to lisp? |
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Wed, 16 Mar 2011 19:22:16 -0700 |
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On 03/16/2011 07:17 PM, Stefan Monnier wrote:
I don't see why not.
I see one gotcha: a seed that is an Emacs fixnum
typically does not contain enough entropy to cover
all the possible seeds that seed_random can accept.
One possible workaround is to have the seed be a list
of fixnums rather than just a single fixnum.