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| author | Theo de Raadt <deraadt@cvs.openbsd.org> | 1996-05-04 11:57:29 +0000 |
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| committer | Theo de Raadt <deraadt@cvs.openbsd.org> | 1996-05-04 11:57:29 +0000 |
| commit | a947ee989aa0611cbbbedc5ac9b821a0e2e531e0 (patch) | |
| tree | 7318bc2a3f1adb15d7d671d87087698c0e1c3486 /lib | |
| parent | 8a4b7d06ffbe850e5186e7994f245809c75d29f5 (diff) | |
document largest possible value; netbsd pr#2338; from banshee@gabriella.resort.com
Diffstat (limited to 'lib')
| -rw-r--r-- | lib/libc/stdlib/random.3 | 8 |
1 files changed, 7 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/lib/libc/stdlib/random.3 b/lib/libc/stdlib/random.3 index 1de9fba4bef..f52a26eb5bc 100644 --- a/lib/libc/stdlib/random.3 +++ b/lib/libc/stdlib/random.3 @@ -30,7 +30,7 @@ .\" SUCH DAMAGE. .\" .\" from: @(#)random.3 6.5 (Berkeley) 4/19/91 -.\" $Id: random.3,v 1.1 1995/10/18 08:42:19 deraadt Exp $ +.\" $Id: random.3,v 1.2 1996/05/04 11:57:28 deraadt Exp $ .\" .Dd April 19, 1991 .Dt RANDOM 3 @@ -60,6 +60,12 @@ 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. +The maximum value returned by +.Fn random +is +.Dv LONG_MAX +(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). |