(***********************************************************************) (* *) (* Objective Caml *) (* *) (* Damien Doligez, projet Para, INRIA Rocquencourt *) (* *) (* Copyright 1996 Institut National de Recherche en Informatique et *) (* en Automatique. All rights reserved. This file is distributed *) (* under the terms of the GNU Library General Public License. *) (* *) (***********************************************************************) (* $Id$ *) (* Module [Random]: pseudo-random number generator *) val init : int -> unit (* Initialize the generator, using the argument as a seed. The same seed will always yield the same sequence of numbers. *) val full_init : int array -> unit (* Same as [init] but takes more data as seed. *) val self_init : unit -> unit (* Initialize the generator with a more-or-less random seed chosen in a system-dependent way. *) val bits : unit -> int (* Return 30 random bits in a nonnegative integer. *) val int : int -> int (* [Random.int bound] returns a random integer between 0 (inclusive) and [bound] (exclusive). [bound] must be more than 0 and less than $2^{30}$. *) val float : float -> float (* [Random.float bound] returns a random floating-point number between 0 (inclusive) and [bound] (exclusive). If [bound] is negative, the result is negative. If [bound] is 0, the result is 0. *)