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Date:         Wed, 16 Jun 2010 21:24:47 +0100
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From: Joseph Wright <joseph.wright@MORNINGSTAR2.CO.UK>
Subject: Re: l3fp: A floating point unit for expl3
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On 16/06/2010 14:00, Martin Schröder wrote:
> Just a reminder: pdftex/luatex does random numbers since 1.30.0
> (released 2005-08-01). Porting that code to XeTeX would probably be
> trivial.

A PRNG is not actually too hard (I already have some code to do this). 
At present, we only require a single post-e-TeX primitive (\pdfstrcmp), 
and I think we'd like to keep it that way if possible. As I can write a 
PRNG in TeX, I think for the moment that will be the way to do things.
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Joseph Wright