Mega Millions Lottery random number generator

• Description
• Synopsis
• Installation
• Source Installation
• Example

Description

The node script mega-millions-rng uses a cryptographically secure random number generator to pick a total of six uniformly distributed random numbers output as a JSON array. The first five are in the range [1-70] (inclusive) and last is in the range [1-25].

The mega-millions-rng package has no dependencies.

Synopsis

mega-millions-rng

Installation

To install from the web, on the command line run:

npm i -g mega-millions-rng

Source Installation

To install from source, on the command line run:

git clone https://github.com/slewsys/mega-millions-rng
cd ./mega-millions-rng

and if GNU make and JSON parser jq are available, run:

gmake check
gmake install

Otherwise, run:

npm pack .
npm install -g ./mega-millions-rng-1.0.0.tgz

Example

mega-millions-rng

produces output in the format:

["29","33","46","56","57","10"]