RAND

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NAME

rand, srand - random number generator  

SYNOPSIS

srand(seed)
int seed;

rand( )  

DESCRIPTION

Rand uses a multiplicative congruential random number generator with period 232 to return successive pseudo-random numbers in the range from 0 to 215-1.

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.


 

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