Calling math.random() freezes IE and node.js

[ghost]

calling this method causes the IE 11.0 hangs:

math.ceil(math.random() * 10000000000000);

[FSMaxB]

This not only happens with IE 11.0. I just confirmed it with nodejs 7.7.3.

Interestingly math.eval('ceil(random() * 10000000000000)') works fine

This can be reproduced by just typing math.random or math.randomInt and hitting enter. Maybe related to lazyloading, not sure though.

[ghost]

Oh! Interseting bug :)
also your workaround doesn't worked for me! I replaced it with javascript pure lib (Math class)

[FSMaxB]

Yes, math.eval does in fact not work. It works with bin/cli.js though, strange.

@josdejong @morsecodist This happened somewhere between 3d46e21 and 0502921 where the RNG was replaced.

[josdejong]

I found the underlying cause. Calling seed-random caused an infinite loop, because it was being called inside an object getter of a globally defined object (math.random), whilst seed-random uses all globally defined objects to generate a local entropy.

See ForbesLindesay/seed-random#6 for more details.

[josdejong]

Should be fixed in v3.12.0