I’m reading the Julia documentation following this link: https://fredrikekre.github.io/stdlib/Random.html and I encounter this one line of code: rand(big(1:6)) Somehow I can not find out this big(1:6)? Could anyone tell me what is this?

It means that the GMP library internal structure for this 1 is stored there. The alloc and size fields are also part of the representation. julia> a = BigInt(1) 1 julia> b = BigInt(1) 1 julia> dump(a) BigInt alloc: Int32 1 size: Int32 1 d: Ptr{UInt64} @0x000000000af3bcb0 julia> dump(b) Bi…

What is rand(big(1:6))?

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bsnyh April 7, 2019, 9:01am 6

Very good explanations. Is there a way to print out this BigInt representation of, say the number 1?

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What is rand(big(1:6))?

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