NAME

rand, srand - random number generator

SYNOPSIS

srand (seed)
unsigned 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.

SEE ALSO

nrand(3U) , reorder(3U)