Re: rigorously predictable random numbers

[Roman Perepelitsa <roman.perepelitsa@xxxxxxxxx>]

On Mon, May 20, 2024 at 9:14 PM Kannan Varadhan <kvaradhan3@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
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> ok but the loop seems to read 4, then 3, 2, and 1B in each
> iteration, or did I miss something?

You can add something like 'print reading' in that loop to see how
many times sysread is invoked.

> i dont have an alternate implementation.  I was trying to use '#bytes[1]' directly and that did not work.

That's "why" then.

Roman.