Re^5: rand() function on Windows systems (pure Perl)(Correction)

Hm. I forgot that Perl would upgrade the seed to a float; that needs to be clamped back to a 32-bit integer as the new line below:

{
    my $seed;
    sub ppSrand{ $seed = int( $_[ 0 ] & 32767 ); }
    sub ppRand{
        my $max = shift // 1;
        $seed = ( $seed * 214013 + 2531011 ); 
        $seed &= 0xffffffff;
        return ( ( $seed >> 16 ) & 32767 ) / 32768 * $max;
    }
}
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Re^6: rand() function on Windows systems (pure Perl)(Correction) by bakiperl (Beadle) on Jan 01, 2017 at 23:09 UTC
Great job man! This last fix cleared all my problems. Thank you again.	[reply]