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Pseudo-random number generation

Defined in header `<stdlib.h>`
rand	generates a pseudo-random number (function)
srand	seeds pseudo-random number generator (function)
RAND_MAX	maximum possible value generated by `rand()` (macro constant)

References

C11 standard (ISO/IEC 9899:2011):
- 7.22.2 Pseudo-random sequence generation functions (p: 346-347)
C99 standard (ISO/IEC 9899:1999):
- 7.20.2 Pseudo-random sequence generation functions (p: 312-313)
C89/C90 standard (ISO/IEC 9899:1990):
- 4.10.2 Pseudo-random sequence generation functions

See also

C++ documentation for Pseudo-random number generation

Links:

http://en.cppreference.com/w/c/numeric/random

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2016-10-10 18:36:06

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