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Posted March 13, 2015 4:10am by

What does the code inside the Math.random() function actually look like? How can I find that out?

Just curious if there is a place to see what the default JS functions actually look like... I'm curious how they are built to begin with.

3 Answers

March 13, 2015 4:26am

Hi Ori,

It's hard to actually see the original source code for all browsers as it's part of the built-in JavaScript engine, however Chrome use their own in-house V8 engine which is open source so you can see all the behind the scenes stuff in one file.

https://github.com/v8/v8-git-mirror/blob/master/src/math.js#L134

March 13, 2015 4:28am

Hi Ori,

Perhaps this Stackoverflow post can help point you in the right direction.

Cheers

March 13, 2015 8:14pm

Thank you Chris Upjohn and Robert Richey

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