sequin

sequin

Generates uniformly distributed ints in any base from a bit sequence, according to the algorithm described by Christian Perfect.

Installation

$ npm install sequin

Usage

Construct a stream using an array of 0/1 values, or using a Buffer with the second argument set to 8:

var Sequin = require('sequin'),
    crypto = require('crypto'),
    stream = new Sequin(crypto.randomBytes(10), 8);

The stream's generate(k) method returns an integer less than k, or null if there are not enough bits left in the stream to generate an integer of the required size.

var Sequin = require('sequin'),
    stream = new Sequin([1,1,0,1,0,1,0,1,1,1,1,1,0,0,1]);

stream.generate(5) // -> 3
stream.generate(5) // -> 3
stream.generate(5) // -> 1
stream.generate(5) // -> null

License

(The MIT License)

Copyright (c) 2012-2017 James Coglan

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