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If your system has a means to generate random numbers involving not only a software algorithm (like the [[wp:/dev/random|/dev/random]] devices in Unix), show how to obtain a random 32-bit number from that mechanism. |
If your system has a means to generate random numbers involving not only a software algorithm (like the [[wp:/dev/random|/dev/random]] devices in Unix), show how to obtain a random 32-bit number from that mechanism. |
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<lang forth>variable rnd |
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: randoms ( n -- ) |
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s" /dev/random" r/o open-file throw |
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swap 0 do |
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dup rnd 1 cells rot read-file throw drop |
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rnd @ . |
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loop |
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close-file throw ;</lang> |
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