<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8" ?> <!-- for emacs: -*- coding: utf-8 -*- --> <!-- Apache may like this line in the file .htaccess: AddCharset utf-8 .html --> <!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.1 plus MathML 2.0 plus SVG 1.1//EN" "http://www.w3.org/2002/04/xhtml-math-svg/xhtml-math-svg-flat.dtd" > <html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" xml:lang="en"> <head><title>random(ZZ) -- random integer</title> <link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="../../../../Macaulay2/Style/doc.css"/> </head> <body> <table class="buttons"> <tr> <td><div><a href="_random_lp__Z__Z_cm__Z__Z_rp.html">next</a> | <a href="_random_lp__Type_rp.html">previous</a> | <a href="_random_lp__Z__Z_cm__Z__Z_rp.html">forward</a> | <a href="_random_lp__Type_rp.html">backward</a> | up | <a href="index.html">top</a> | <a href="master.html">index</a> | <a href="toc.html">toc</a> | <a href="http://www.math.uiuc.edu/Macaulay2/">Macaulay2 web site</a></div> </td> </tr> </table> <hr/> <div><h1>random(ZZ) -- random integer</h1> <div class="single"><h2>Synopsis</h2> <ul><li><div class="list"><dl class="element"><dt class="heading">Usage: </dt><dd class="value"><div><tt>random n</tt></div> </dd></dl> </div> </li> <li><span>Function: <a href="_random.html" title="get a random element">random</a></span></li> <li><div class="single">Inputs:<ul><li><span><tt>n</tt>, <span>an <a href="___Z__Z.html">integer</a></span>, </span></li> </ul> </div> </li> <li><div class="single">Outputs:<ul><li><span><span>an <a href="___Z__Z.html">integer</a></span>, a random integer in the range <tt>0 .. n-1</tt></span></li> </ul> </div> </li> <li><div class="single"><a href="_using_spfunctions_spwith_spoptional_spinputs.html">Optional inputs</a>:<ul><li><span><a href="_random_lp__Module_cm__Module_rp.html">Density => ...</a>, -- make a random module map</span></li> <li><span><a href="_random_lp__Type_rp.html">Height => ...</a>, -- random element of a type</span></li> <li><span><a href="_random_lp__Module_cm__Module_rp.html">MaximalRank => ...</a>, -- make a random module map</span></li> <li><span><a href="_random_lp__Module_cm__Module_rp.html">UpperTriangular => ...</a>, -- make a random module map</span></li> </ul> </div> </li> </ul> </div> <div class="single"><h2>Description</h2> <div><table class="examples"><tr><td><pre>i1 : random 57 o1 = 32</pre> </td></tr> <tr><td><pre>i2 : random 10^50 o2 = 62598381936041968229218281845701560731022614908161</pre> </td></tr> <tr><td><pre>i3 : tally apply(100, i -> random 7) o3 = Tally{0 => 14} 1 => 16 2 => 16 3 => 17 4 => 8 5 => 13 6 => 16 o3 : Tally</pre> </td></tr> </table> </div> </div> <div class="single"><h2>See also</h2> <ul><li><span><a href="_set__Random__Seed.html" title="set starting point for random number generator">setRandomSeed</a> -- set starting point for random number generator</span></li> <li><span><a href="_tally.html" title="tally the elements of a list or sequence">tally</a> -- tally the elements of a list or sequence</span></li> </ul> </div> </div> </body> </html>