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How the Roll Function Works (In APL\360 and Its Descendants)


7^5 (16807). If you had access to the inside of the computer, you would see that the following occurs when the roll function is executed: seed =: 2147483647 | 16807×seed (1)Following this, ? y is determined as <.

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