Random number generator (device)

Random number generator (device) is a draft programming task. It is not yet considered ready to be promoted as a complete task, for reasons that should be found in its talk page.

If your system has a means to generate random numbers involving not only a software algorithm (like the /dev/random devices in Unix), show how to obtain a random 32-bit number from that mechanism.

J

Untested: <lang j>256#.a.i.1!:11'/dev/urandom';0 4</lang>

Fallback: <lang j>256#.a.i.4{.host'dd if=/dev/random bs=4 count=1'</lang>

Note: this assumes that J is running on linux.

PicoLisp

<lang PicoLisp>: (in "/dev/urandom" (rd 4)) -> 2917110327</lang>

PureBasic

PureBasic has the source for the random data is the "/dev/urandom" device on Linux or Mac OSX and the "Microsoft Cryptography API" on Windows. <lang PureBasic>If OpenCryptRandom()

 MyRandom = CryptRandom(#MAXLONG)
 CloseCryptRandom()

EndIf</lang>

Tcl

<lang tcl>package require Tcl 8.5

1. Allow override of device name

proc systemRandomInteger Template:Device "/dev/random" {

   set f [open $device "rb"]
   binary scan [read $f 4] "I" x
   close $f
   return $x

}</lang> Usage: <lang tcl>% puts [systemRandomInteger] 636131349</lang>