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Re: RANDOMSMALL <range> [ <seed> ]

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From: Peter Stephenson <pws@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: zsh-workers@xxxxxxxxxx (Zsh hackers list)
Subject: Re: RANDOMSMALL <range> [ <seed> ]
Date: Tue, 08 Jun 2004 22:20:09 +0100
In-reply-to: "Dave Yost"'s message of "Tue, 08 Jun 2004 11:09:53 PDT." <pdy988306110402bcebb015c2cb@[209.128.98.50]>
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> Zsh's RANDOM function is deficient.

It's limited by POSIX, though I haven't checked how much.  Look at the
math function rand48 in the zsh/mathfunc package --- search zshmodules.

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