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This generator takes its numbers from the named file. In order to get good numbers, the file should contain random bytes. If EOF is reached, a warning is printed to stderr and reading continues at the beginning of the file.
prng_new
):
"bfile(some_file_name)"
.
WARNING: The conversion between bytes and numbers in [0,1) is NOT guaranteed to yield the same results on different computers.
prng_is_congruential
is FALSE
.
prng_can_seed
is FALSE
.
prng_can_fast_sub
and prng_can_fast_con
are FALSE
.