Re: random numbers

On Jun 18, 2008, at 12:25 PM, matt wrote:
> (use-modules (srfi srfi-13))
> (use-modules (ice-9 rdelim))
>
> (set! *random-state* (seed->random-state (current-time)))
> (print (random:uniform))
>
> I don't recall which if any of those modules are necessary (perhaps
> neither).

The modules are unnecessary.

See also the documentation on random numbers in the Guile manual,  
which defines a number of different random-number distributions that  
can be generated.

http://www.gnu.org/software/guile/docs/docs-1.8/guile-ref/Random.html