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rand

The rand function returns a random number.

Syntax

  • rand() - returns a value of type real with a uniform distribution in the range [0.0, 1.0).
  • rand( N ) - returns a value of type real chosen with a uniform distribution from the set {0.0, 1.0, …, N - 1}.

Examples

print rand()
print rand( 1000 )