From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:57842) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1dgW98-00068j-0V for guix-patches@gnu.org; Sat, 12 Aug 2017 09:08:07 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1dgW94-0005LH-Ok for guix-patches@gnu.org; Sat, 12 Aug 2017 09:08:05 -0400 Received: from debbugs.gnu.org ([208.118.235.43]:47723) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:RSA_AES_128_CBC_SHA1:16) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1dgW94-0005L0-D9 for guix-patches@gnu.org; Sat, 12 Aug 2017 09:08:02 -0400 Received: from Debian-debbugs by debbugs.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1dgW94-0006Ri-7N for guix-patches@gnu.org; Sat, 12 Aug 2017 09:08:02 -0400 Subject: [bug#28028] [PATCH 2/9] gnu: Add perl-math-random-isaac-xs. Resent-Message-ID: References: <20170809170037.14230-1-ricardo.wurmus@mdc-berlin.de> <20170809170037.14230-2-ricardo.wurmus@mdc-berlin.de> <20170812132202.10a6a7a1@scratchpost.org> From: Ricardo Wurmus In-Reply-To: <20170812132202.10a6a7a1@scratchpost.org> Date: Sat, 12 Aug 2017 15:07:07 +0200 Message-ID: <87o9rlgcjo.fsf@mdc-berlin.de> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: guix-patches-bounces+kyle=kyleam.com@gnu.org Sender: "Guix-patches" To: Danny Milosavljevic Cc: 28028@debbugs.gnu.org Danny Milosavljevic writes: >> + (description "ISAAC (Indirection, Shift, Accumulate, Add, and Count) is a >> +fast pseudo-random number generator. It is suitable for applications where a >> +significant amount of random data needs to be produced quickly, such as >> +solving using the Monte Carlo method or for games. The results are uniformly >> +distributed, unbiased, and unpredictable unless you know the seed. >> + >> +This package provides implements the same interface as > ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ Dupe Ah, good catch! Thanks. -- Ricardo