etomica.api
Interface IRandom

All Known Implementing Classes:

RandomMersenneTwister, RandomNumberGenerator, RandomNumberGeneratorUnix

public interface IRandom

Interface for random number generation.

Method Summary

double	nextDouble() Returns a pseudorandom double, uniformly distributed between 0.0 (inclusive) and 1.0 (exclusive).
double	nextGaussian() Returns a pseudorandom double, Gaussian ("normally") distributed value with mean 0.0 and standard deviation 1.0.
int	nextInt(int maxInt) Returns a pseudorandom integer, uniformly distributed between 0 (inclusive) and maxInt (exclusive).

Method Detail

nextDouble

double nextDouble()

Returns a pseudorandom double, uniformly distributed between 0.0 (inclusive) and 1.0 (exclusive).

nextInt

int nextInt(int maxInt)

Returns a pseudorandom integer, uniformly distributed between 0 (inclusive) and maxInt (exclusive).

nextGaussian

double nextGaussian()

Returns a pseudorandom double, Gaussian ("normally") distributed value with mean 0.0 and standard deviation 1.0.