From: Michael Abernethy <mna@duke.edu>
  To  : 
  Date: Sun, 28 Mar 1999 17:24:53 -0500

Re: Java help?

 If you scour the Java API carefully, you'll find that there is a 
java.math library and a java.lang.Math library.
 The two are not the same and shouldn't be confused.  
 
 The random function that you are looking for is in the java.lang.Math 
library, and I think it explains in there that it calls the java.math 
library. (can't remember exactly).

 Anyway, look there for the random() function and its details.


> 
> Angel, I didn't find anything in java.math, either.  However,
> I did find a class called Random in the java.util library.  It has
> a few procedures for creating random numbers of various
> types:
> 
> nextDouble() returns a double (0.0 <= x < 1.0)
> nextFloat() returns a float (0.0 <= x < 1.0)
> nextLong() returns a long between the highest and lowest longs
> nextInt() returns a int between the highest and lowest ints
> 
> You can set the seed value with a call to:
> setSeed(long)
> 
> 

Mike Abernethy
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