Package org.apache.commons.rng

Interface UniformRandomProvider

All Known Subinterfaces:

RestorableUniformRandomProvider

public interface UniformRandomProvider

Applies to generators of random number sequences that follow a uniform distribution.

Since:

1.0

Method Summary

Modifier and Type	Method	Description
boolean	nextBoolean()	Generates a boolean value.
void	nextBytes(byte[] bytes)	Generates byte values and places them into a user-supplied array.
void	nextBytes(byte[] bytes, int start, int len)	Generates byte values and places them into a user-supplied array.
double	nextDouble()	Generates a double value between 0 and 1.
float	nextFloat()	Generates a float value between 0 and 1.
int	nextInt()	Generates an int value.
int	nextInt(int n)	Generates an int value between 0 (inclusive) and the specified value (exclusive).
long	nextLong()	Generates a long value.
long	nextLong(long n)	Generates a long value between 0 (inclusive) and the specified value (exclusive).

Method Detail

nextBytes

void nextBytes(byte[] bytes)

Generates byte values and places them into a user-supplied array.

The number of random bytes produced is equal to the length of the the byte array.

Parameters:

bytes - Byte array in which to put the random bytes. Cannot be null.

nextBytes

void nextBytes(byte[] bytes,
               int start,
               int len)

Generates byte values and places them into a user-supplied array.

The array is filled with bytes extracted from random integers. This implies that the number of random bytes generated may be larger than the length of the byte array.

Parameters:

bytes - Array in which to put the generated bytes. Cannot be null.

start - Index at which to start inserting the generated bytes.

len - Number of bytes to insert.

Throws:

IndexOutOfBoundsException - if start < 0 or start >= bytes.length.

IndexOutOfBoundsException - if len < 0 or len > bytes.length - start.

nextInt

int nextInt()

Generates an int value.

Returns:

the next random value.

nextInt

int nextInt(int n)

Generates an int value between 0 (inclusive) and the specified value (exclusive).

Parameters:

n - Bound on the random number to be returned. Must be positive.

Returns:

a random int value between 0 (inclusive) and n (exclusive).

Throws:

IllegalArgumentException - if n is negative.

nextLong

long nextLong()

Generates a long value.

Returns:

the next random value.

nextLong

long nextLong(long n)

Generates a long value between 0 (inclusive) and the specified value (exclusive).

Parameters:

n - Bound on the random number to be returned. Must be positive.

Returns:

a random long value between 0 (inclusive) and n (exclusive).

Throws:

IllegalArgumentException - if n is negative.

nextBoolean

boolean nextBoolean()

Generates a boolean value.

Returns:

the next random value.

nextFloat

float nextFloat()

Generates a float value between 0 and 1.

Returns:

the next random value between 0 and 1.

nextDouble

double nextDouble()

Generates a double value between 0 and 1.

Returns:

the next random value between 0 and 1.