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ISBN : 978-2-7460-9712-4
EAN : 9782746097124
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Unix

Unix v7

rand(3)


RAND

RAND

NAME
SYNOPSIS
DESCRIPTION

NAME

rand, srand − random number generator

SYNOPSIS

srand(seed)
int seed;

rand( )

DESCRIPTION

Rand uses a multiplicative congruential random number generator with period 2 32 to return successive pseudo-random numbers in the range from 0 to 2 15 −1.

The generator is reinitialized by calling srand with 1 as argument. It can be set to a random starting point by calling srand with whatever you like as argument.



rand(3)