Hi,
After some more time to investigate, I found out that the LCG used in
PicoLisp was not the Haynes one, but the one referred as «Newlib» here:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linear_congruential_generator#Parameters_in_common_use
More auto-answers and other questions below.
On Wed, Apr 22, 2015
Hi Christophe,
our mails overlapped :)
PicoLisp was not the Haynes one, but the one referred as «Newlib» here:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linear_congruential_generator#Parameters_in_common_use
Right. I took it originally from the book by Donald Knuth.
Maybe I was too tired. The
Hi Christophe,
I use PicoLisp to implement a pedagogical language, directly
embedded in PicoLisp. In an exercise about dices, I noticed a
kind of similarity among the results of my students.
...
Nice! This sounds really interesting.
Now the question. I found discrepancies between
Hi Chri,
On 22. Apr, 2015, at 22:50, Christophe Gragnic christophegrag...@gmail.com
wrote:
. .
Now the question. I found discrepancies between PicoLisp:
: (rand 1 1000)
- 1
: (rand 1 1000)
- 934
: (bye)
And Ersatz
: (rand 1 1000)
- 1
: (rand 1 1000)
- 967
: (bye)
I tried to
