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Dinoguy1000 (talk | contribs) (that entire function was just setting the seed for the random function (and was an unattributed copy/port of code from http://qaru.site/questions/10188036/how-can-i-generate-dates-of-a-certain-gregorian-year-to-hijri), so just replace it with os.time()) |
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local p = {} |
local p = {} |
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local facts = require("Module:DidYouKnow/facts") |
local facts = require("Module:DidYouKnow/facts") |
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-- Apparently this counts days from November 3, 2018? What is that supposed to do? --ATCN |
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function getCurrentDay() |
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local now = os.date("!*t") |
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local day = now["day"] |
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local month = now["month"] |
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local year = now["year"] |
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if month < 3 then |
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year = year-1 |
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month = month+12 |
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end |
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local A = math.floor(year/100) |
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local B = math.floor(A/4) |
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local C = 2-A+B |
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local E = math.floor(365.25*(year+4716)) |
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local F = math.floor(30.6001*(month+1)) |
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return C+day+E+F-2459950 |
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end |
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function p.getFacts() |
function p.getFacts() |
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local s = "" |
local s = "" |
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local length = #facts.facts |
local length = #facts.facts |
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math.randomseed( |
math.randomseed(os.time()) |
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[[ |
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os.time() only has second-level resolution, not millisecond-level, so we |
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may end up with the same seed sometimes |
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since all we're doing is picking random facts from a list, this isn't |
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a big deal |
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]] |
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for i = 0, 4 do |
for i = 0, 4 do |
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Revision as of 22:37, 16 December 2018
Implements {{DidYouKnow}}. All individual hooks are stored and can be added at Module:DidYouKnow/facts.
[view] [edit] [history] [refresh]The above documentation is transcluded from Module:DidYouKnow/doc.
local p = {}
local facts = require("Module:DidYouKnow/facts")
function p.getFacts()
local s = ""
local length = #facts.facts
math.randomseed(os.time())
[[
os.time() only has second-level resolution, not millisecond-level, so we
may end up with the same seed sometimes
since all we're doing is picking random facts from a list, this isn't
a big deal
]]
for i = 0, 4 do
s = s .. "* ... that " .. facts.facts[math.random(1, length)] .. "?"
if i < 4 then s = s .. "\n" end
end
return s
end
-- List all facts. Intended to allow easier debugging.
function p.getAllFacts()
local result = {}
local length = #facts.facts
for i = 1, length do
result[i] = "* ... that " .. facts.facts[i] .. "?"
end
return table.concat(result, "\n")
end
return p