pamirand

A Park-Miller style random number generator

Installation

Windows

• Try using Scoop.
  

  • First, add the LPTSTR-Scoop bucket (if you haven't already):

    $ scoop bucket add lptstr https://github.com/lptstr/lptstr-scoop
    

  • Now install the application:

    $ scoop install pamirand
    

• Or, if you don't want to use a package manager, just download pamirand.exe from the latest release in the latest releases section.

Other platforms

• Build this project from source:
  • First, make sure that you have Cargo and RustC v1.30.0+ installed:

  $ cargo -vV
  cargo 1.32.0 (8610973aa 2019-01-02)
  release: 1.32.0
  commit-hash: 8610973aaf48615ba7dc9a38a9a2795ba6f36a31
  commit-date: 2019-01-02
  
  $ rustc --version --verbose
  rustc 1.32.0 (9fda7c223 2019-01-16)
  binary: rustc
  commit-hash: 9fda7c2237db910e41d6a712e9a2139b352e558b
  commit-date: 2019-01-16
  host: x86_64-pc-windows-gnu
  release: 1.32.0
  LLVM version: 8.0
  

  • Then clone this repository:

  $ git clone https://github.com/lptstr/pamirand
  

  • Build with Cargo:

  $ cargo run --verbose --release
  

Usage

$ ./pamirand [seed]

For example, to get one random number with the seed 678, try:

$ ./pamirand 678
3272773

Or, to get 10 random numbers, starting from the seed 2846, try this PowerShell script:

$i = 2846
0..9 | % {
  $i = ./pamirand $i
  $i
}

Output:

137379266
5047150
965325539
1128920463
1722126848
1840588085
1334007351
1571684826
495954630
78247974

Inspiration

• park-miller by @sindresorhus