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authorAaron Campbell <aaron@cvs.openbsd.org>1999-07-04 18:59:45 +0000
committerAaron Campbell <aaron@cvs.openbsd.org>1999-07-04 18:59:45 +0000
commitce33624f105bbf6b20e87d0e06c24996db2e0176 (patch)
tree66d6fb743c7b71c44d2e5fe784ce772f6e55b4cf /lib/libc/stdlib/random.3
parent02f5c89460eebf5fccec73d72f630200c765c1c9 (diff)
trash some old leftover macros and replace them with -mdoc macros
Diffstat (limited to 'lib/libc/stdlib/random.3')
-rw-r--r--lib/libc/stdlib/random.313
1 files changed, 4 insertions, 9 deletions
diff --git a/lib/libc/stdlib/random.3 b/lib/libc/stdlib/random.3
index e1ab9e44da9..7b8a566115a 100644
--- a/lib/libc/stdlib/random.3
+++ b/lib/libc/stdlib/random.3
@@ -29,7 +29,7 @@
.\" OUT OF THE USE OF THIS SOFTWARE, EVEN IF ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF
.\" SUCH DAMAGE.
.\"
-.\" $OpenBSD: random.3,v 1.8 1999/06/29 18:36:23 aaron Exp $
+.\" $OpenBSD: random.3,v 1.9 1999/07/04 18:59:43 aaron Exp $
.\"
.Dd April 19, 1991
.Dt RANDOM 3
@@ -56,9 +56,7 @@ The
function
uses a non-linear additive feedback random number generator employing a
default table of size 31 long integers to return successive pseudo-random
-numbers in the range from 0 to
-.if t 2\u\s731\s10\d\(mi1.
-.if n (2**31)\(mi1.
+numbers in the range from 0 to (2**31)\-1.
The maximum value returned by
.Fn random
is
@@ -66,8 +64,7 @@ is
(as defined by the header file
.Aq Pa limits.h ) .
The period of this random number generator is very large, approximately
-.if t 16\(mu(2\u\s731\s10\d\(mi1).
-.if n 16*((2**31)\(mi1).
+16*((2**31)\-1.
.Pp
The
.Fn random Ns / Fn srandom
@@ -148,9 +145,7 @@ is that the size of the state array does not have to be remembered after
it is initialized.
.Pp
With 256 bytes of state information, the period of the random number
-generator is greater than
-.if t 2\u\s769\s10\d,
-.if n 2**69
+generator is greater than 2**69
which should be sufficient for most purposes.
.Sh AUTHOR
Earl T. Cohen