Generating uniform random numbers in Lua

Question

I am working on programming a Markov chain in Lua, and one element of this requires me to uniformly generate random numbers. Here is a simplified example to illustrate my qu

Answer 1

There's the Luaossl library solution: (https://github.com/wahern/luaossl)

local rand = require "openssl.rand"
local randominteger
if rand.ready() then -- rand has been properly seeded
    -- Returns a cryptographically strong uniform random integer in the interval [0, n−1].
    randominteger = rand.uniform(99) + 1 -- randomizes an integer from range 1 to 100
end

http://25thandclement.com/~william/projects/luaossl.pdf