<section xml:id="ansi.random-states">
<title>Random-States</title>
- <para>&ECL; relies internally on a 32-bit or 64-bit Mersenne-Twister random number generator, using a relatively large buffer to precompute about 5000 pseud-random bytes. This implies also that random states can be printed readably and also read, using the <literal>#$</literal> macro. There is no provision to create random states from user arrays, though.</para>
+ <para>&ECL; relies internally on a 32-bit <!-- or 64-bit -->
+ Mersenne-Twister random number generator, using a relatively large
+ buffer to precompute about 5000 pseud-random bytes. This implies
+ also that random states can be printed readably and also read, using
+ the <literal>#$</literal> macro. There is no provision to create
+ random states from user arrays, though. Random state is printed
+ unreadably by default.</para>
+ <para>
+ The <literal>#$</literal> macro can be used to initialize
+ generatorr with the random seed (an integer), an array of random
+ bytes (mainly used for reading back printed random-state) and an
+ another random-state (syntactic sugar for copying of the
+ random-state).
+ </para>
+
+ <!-- <programlisting> put examples in txi after conversion-->
+ <!-- #$1234 -> #<random-state 0300c000> -->
+ <!-- (let ((*print-readably* t))
+ (print #$1234)) -> ...-->
+ <!-- (read-from-string (format nil )) -->
+ <!-- </programlisting> -->
</section>
<xi:include href="ref_c_numbers.xml" xpointer="ansi.numbers.c-dict" xmlns:xi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XInclude"/>
</chapter>
-</book>
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+</book>
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