I don't know, your "(res+V×0)" is probably the way to go for that purpose, I'm not an expert but I understand what you mean.
I have an alias defined as: proto←{↑0⍴⊂ ⍵} that give me the prototype of the argument (use with: 24 QuadCR proto w). It will probably not help you but good to know. Xtian. On 2017-06-30 00:24, Elias Mårtenson wrote:
The purpose of it is to preserve the structure of the argument, while setting all values to MAXINT. Is there a better way to achieve this? Regards, Elias On 30 June 2017 at 12:21, Christian Robert <christian.rob...@polymtl.ca <mailto:christian.rob...@polymtl.ca>> wrote: On 2017-06-30 00:19, Elias Mårtenson wrote: Thanks. I'll stick with this for now then. How would (res+V×0) wrap around, by the way? Bad first reading, (res+V×0) does nothing, it add 0 to "res". How is it usefull ? Xtian. On 30 June 2017 at 12:17, Christian Robert <christian.rob...@polymtl.ca <mailto:christian.rob...@polymtl.ca> <mailto:christian.rob...@polymtl.ca <mailto:christian.rob...@polymtl.ca>>> wrote: I think this is the best you can get, about 62 bits of randomness. (64⍴2) ⊤⎕syl[20;2] ⍝ the largest 64 bits integer supported by gnu-apl 0 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 0 1 0 1 1 0 0 1 1 1 1 0 1 1 1 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 0 0 1 1 1 0 1 1 0 0 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 so, it's a bit less than 63 bits, say 62 bits for safety is Ok. Note that (res+V×0) may wrap around. Xtian. On 2017-06-29 23:23, Elias Mårtenson wrote: I had a need to have a function that does the same as monadic ?, but with the difference that the resulting numbers not be integers, but floating point. Now, here's my attempt at creating such a function, I'd like to know if this is the best way to achieve what I need: ∇ r←*hrRand* V ;res ⍝⍝ Like monadic ?, but returns floating point numbers res ← ⎕SYL[19+⎕IO;1+⎕IO] r ← V × res÷⍨ ?res+V×0 ∇ Example: * hrRand 3 2 ⍴ 10 100 5 (3 4 (2 2⍴5)) 1000* ┏→━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━┓ ↓ 4.138685128 <tel:4.138685128> <tel:4.138685128 <tel:4.138685128>> 54.55782413 ┃ ┃ 0.4543486424 ┏→━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━┓┃ ┃ ┃2.024528001 <tel:2.024528001> <tel:2.024528001 <tel:2.024528001>> 2.772781338 ┏→━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━┓┃┃ ┃ ┃ ↓3.185551114 <tel:3.185551114> <tel:3.185551114 <tel:3.185551114>> 3.13571477 ┃┃┃ ┃ ┃ ┃1.204617876 4 <tel:1.204617876%204> <tel:204617876%204>.396324338┃┃┃ ┃ ┃ ┗━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━┛┃┃ ┃ ┗∊━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━┛┃ ┃634.0902523 9.353801479┃ ┗∊∊━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━┛ Regards, Elias