RANDOM(3F) RANDOM(3F) NAME random, drandm, irandm - better random number generator SYNOPSIS function irandm (iflag) function random (iflag) double precision function drandm (iflag) DESCRIPTION These functions use random(3) to generate sequences of random numbers, and should be used rather than the older functions described in man 3f rand. If iflag is non-zero, it is used as a new seed for the random number generator, and the first new random value is returned. Irandm returns positive integers in the range 0 through 2147483647 ( 2**31-1). Random and drandm return values in the range 0. through 1.0 by dividing the integer random number from random(3) by 2147483647 . FILES /usr/lib/libF77.a SEE ALSO random(3) 4.3 Berkeley Distribution May 15, 1985 RANDOM(3F)