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Random.java

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package java.util;

/**
 * An instance of this class is used to generate a stream of
 * pseudorandom numbers. The class uses a 48-bit seed, which is
 * modified using a linear congruential formula. (See Donald Knuth,
 * <i>The Art of Computer Programming, Volume 2</i>, Section 3.2.1.)
 * <p>
 * If two instances of <code>Random</code> are created with the same
 * seed, and the same sequence of method calls is made for each, they
 * will generate and return identical sequences of numbers. In order to
 * guarantee this property, particular algorithms are specified for the
 * class <tt>Random</tt>. Java implementations must use all the algorithms
 * shown here for the class <tt>Random</tt>, for the sake of absolute
 * portability of Java code. However, subclasses of class <tt>Random</tt>
 * are permitted to use other algorithms, so long as they adhere to the
 * general contracts for all the methods.
 * <p>
 * The algorithms implemented by class <tt>Random</tt> use a
 * <tt>protected</tt> utility method that on each invocation can supply
 * up to 32 pseudorandomly generated bits.
 * <p>
 *
 * @version 12/17/01 (CLDC 1.1)
 * @since   JDK1.0, CLDC 1.0
 */
public
class Random {

    /**
     * The internal state associated with this pseudorandom number generator.
     * (The specs for the methods in this class describe the ongoing
     * computation of this value.)
     */
    private long seed;

    private final static long multiplier = 0x5DEECE66DL;
    private final static long addend = 0xBL;
    private final static long mask = (1L << 48) - 1;

    /**
     * Creates a new random number generator. Its seed is initialized to
     * a value based on the current time:
     * <blockquote><pre>
     * public Random() { this(System.currentTimeMillis()); }</pre></blockquote>
     *
     * @see     java.lang.System#currentTimeMillis()
     */
    public Random() { this(System.currentTimeMillis()); }

    /**
     * Creates a new random number generator using a single
     * <code>long</code> seed:
     * <blockquote><pre>
     * public Random(long seed) { setSeed(seed); }</pre></blockquote>
     * Used by method <tt>next</tt> to hold
     * the state of the pseudorandom number generator.
     *
     * @param   seed   the initial seed.
     * @see     java.util.Random#setSeed(long)
     */
    public Random(long seed) {
        setSeed(seed);
    }

    /**
     * Sets the seed of this random number generator using a single
     * <code>long</code> seed. The general contract of <tt>setSeed</tt>
     * is that it alters the state of this random number generator
     * object so as to be in exactly the same state as if it had just
     * been created with the argument <tt>seed</tt> as a seed. The method
     * <tt>setSeed</tt> is implemented by class Random as follows:
     * <blockquote><pre>
     * synchronized public void setSeed(long seed) {
     *       this.seed = (seed ^ 0x5DEECE66DL) & ((1L << 48) - 1);
     * }</pre></blockquote>
     * The implementation of <tt>setSeed</tt> by class <tt>Random</tt>
     * happens to use only 48 bits of the given seed. In general, however,
     * an overriding method may use all 64 bits of the long argument
     * as a seed value.
     *
     * @param   seed   the initial seed.
     */
    synchronized public void setSeed(long seed) {
        this.seed = (seed ^ multiplier) & mask;
    }

    /**
     * Generates the next pseudorandom number. Subclass should
     * override this, as this is used by all other methods.<p>
     * The general contract of <tt>next</tt> is that it returns an
     * <tt>int</tt> value and if the argument bits is between <tt>1</tt>
     * and <tt>32</tt> (inclusive), then that many low-order bits of the
     * returned value will be (approximately) independently chosen bit
     * values, each of which is (approximately) equally likely to be
     * <tt>0</tt> or <tt>1</tt>. The method <tt>next</tt> is implemented
     * by class <tt>Random</tt> as follows:
     * <blockquote><pre>
     * synchronized protected int next(int bits) {
     *       seed = (seed * 0x5DEECE66DL + 0xBL) & ((1L << 48) - 1);
     *       return (int)(seed >>> (48 - bits));
     * }</pre></blockquote>
     * This is a linear congruential pseudorandom number generator, as
     * defined by D. H. Lehmer and described by Donald E. Knuth in <i>The
     * Art of Computer Programming,</i> Volume 2: <i>Seminumerical
     * Algorithms</i>, section 3.2.1.
     *
     * @param   bits random bits
     * @return  the next pseudorandom value from this random number generator's sequence.
     */
    synchronized protected int next(int bits) {
        long nextseed = (seed * multiplier + addend) & mask;
        seed = nextseed;
        return (int)(nextseed >>> (48 - bits));
    }

    private static final int BITS_PER_BYTE = 8;

    /**
     * Returns the next pseudorandom, uniformly distributed <code>int</code>
     * value from this random number generator's sequence. The general
     * contract of <tt>nextInt</tt> is that one <tt>int</tt> value is
     * pseudorandomly generated and returned. All 2<font size="-1"><sup>32
     * </sup></font> possible <tt>int</tt> values are produced with
     * (approximately) equal probability. The method <tt>nextInt</tt> is
     * implemented by class <tt>Random</tt> as follows:
     * <blockquote><pre>
     * public int nextInt() {  return next(32); }</pre></blockquote>
     *
     * @return  the next pseudorandom, uniformly distributed <code>int</code>
     *          value from this random number generator's sequence.
     */
    public int nextInt() {  return next(32); }

    /**
     * Returns a pseudorandom, uniformly distributed <tt>int</tt> value
     * between 0 (inclusive) and the specified value (exclusive), drawn from
     * this random number generator's sequence.  The general contract of
     * <tt>nextInt</tt> is that one <tt>int</tt> value in the specified range
     * is pseudorandomly generated and returned.  All <tt>n</tt> possible
     * <tt>int</tt> values are produced with (approximately) equal
     * probability.  The method <tt>nextInt(int n)</tt> is implemented by
     * class <tt>Random</tt> as follows:
     * <blockquote><pre>
     * public int nextInt(int n) {
     *     if (n<=0)
     *         throw new IllegalArgumentException("n must be positive");
     *
     *     if ((n & -n) == n)  // i.e., n is a power of 2
     *         return (int)((n * (long)next(31)) >> 31);
     *
     *     int bits, val;
     *     do {
     *         bits = next(31);
     *         val = bits % n;
     *     } while(bits - val + (n-1) < 0);
     *     return val;
     * }
     * </pre></blockquote>
     * <p>
     * The hedge "approximately" is used in the foregoing description only
     * because the next method is only approximately an unbiased source of
     * independently chosen bits.  If it were a perfect source of randomly
     * chosen bits, then the algorithm shown would choose <tt>int</tt>
     * values from the stated range with perfect uniformity.
     * <p>
     * The algorithm rejects values that would result
     * in an uneven distribution (due to the fact that 2^31 is not divisible
     * by n). The probability of a value being rejected depends on n.  The
     * worst case is n=2^30+1, for which the probability of a reject is 1/2,
     * and the expected number of iterations before the loop terminates is 2.
     * <p>
     * The algorithm treats the case where n is a power of two specially: it
     * returns the correct number of high-order bits from the underlying
     * pseudo-random number generator.  In the absence of special treatment,
     * the correct number of <i>low-order</i> bits would be returned.  Linear
     * congruential pseudo-random number generators such as the one
     * implemented by this class are known to have short periods in the
     * sequence of values of their low-order bits.  Thus, this special case
     * greatly increases the length of the sequence of values returned by
     * successive calls to this method if n is a small power of two.
     *
     * @param n the bound on the random number to be returned.  Must be
     *          positive.
     * @return  a pseudorandom, uniformly distributed <tt>int</tt>
     *          value between 0 (inclusive) and n (exclusive).
     * @exception IllegalArgumentException n is not positive.
     * @since CLDC 1.1
     */
    public int nextInt(int n) {
        if (n<=0) {
            throw new IllegalArgumentException(
/* #ifdef VERBOSE_EXCEPTIONS */
/// skipped                       "n must be positive"
/* #endif */
            );
        }
        if ((n & -n) == n)  // i.e., n is a power of 2
            return (int)((n * (long)next(31)) >> 31);

        int bits, val;
        do {
            bits = next(31);
            val = bits % n;
        } while(bits - val + (n-1) < 0);
        return val;
    }

    /**
     * Returns the next pseudorandom, uniformly distributed <code>long</code>
     * value from this random number generator's sequence. The general
     * contract of <tt>nextLong</tt> is that one long value is pseudorandomly
     * generated and returned. All 2<font size="-1"><sup>64</sup></font>
     * possible <tt>long</tt> values are produced with (approximately) equal
     * probability. The method <tt>nextLong</tt> is implemented by class
     * <tt>Random</tt> as follows:
     * <blockquote><pre>
     * public long nextLong() {
     *       return ((long)next(32) << 32) + next(32);
     * }</pre></blockquote>
     *
     * @return  the next pseudorandom, uniformly distributed <code>long</code>
     *          value from this random number generator's sequence.
     */
    public long nextLong() {
        // it's okay that the bottom word remains signed.
        return ((long)(next(32)) << 32) + next(32);
    }

    /**
     * Returns the next pseudorandom, uniformly distributed <code>float</code>
     * value between <code>0.0</code> and <code>1.0</code> from this random
     * number generator's sequence. <p>
     * The general contract of <tt>nextFloat</tt> is that one <tt>float</tt>
     * value, chosen (approximately) uniformly from the range <tt>0.0f</tt>
     * (inclusive) to <tt>1.0f</tt> (exclusive), is pseudorandomly
     * generated and returned. All 2<font size="-1"><sup>24</sup></font>
     * possible <tt>float</tt> values of the form
     * <i>m x </i>2<font size="-1"><sup>-24</sup></font>, where
     * <i>m</i> is a positive integer less than 2<font size="-1"><sup>24</sup>
     * </font>, are produced with (approximately) equal probability. The
     * method <tt>nextFloat</tt> is implemented by class <tt>Random</tt> as
     * follows:
     * <blockquote><pre>
     * public float nextFloat() {
     *      return next(24) / ((float)(1 << 24));
     * }</pre></blockquote>
     * The hedge "approximately" is used in the foregoing description only
     * because the next method is only approximately an unbiased source of
     * independently chosen bits. If it were a perfect source or randomly
     * chosen bits, then the algorithm shown would choose <tt>float</tt>
     * values from the stated range with perfect uniformity.<p>
     * [In early versions of Java, the result was incorrectly calculated as:
     * <blockquote><pre>
     * return next(30) / ((float)(1 << 30));</pre></blockquote>
     * This might seem to be equivalent, if not better, but in fact it
     * introduced a slight nonuniformity because of the bias in the rounding
     * of floating-point numbers: it was slightly more likely that the
     * low-order bit of the significand would be 0 than that it would be 1.]
     *
     * @return  the next pseudorandom, uniformly distributed <code>float</code>
     *          value between <code>0.0</code> and <code>1.0</code> from this
     *          random number generator's sequence.
     * @since   CLDC 1.1
     */
    public float nextFloat() {
        int i = next(24);
        return i / ((float)(1 << 24));
    }

    /**
     * Returns the next pseudorandom, uniformly distributed
     * <code>double</code> value between <code>0.0</code> and
     * <code>1.0</code> from this random number generator's sequence. <p>
     * The general contract of <tt>nextDouble</tt> is that one
     * <tt>double</tt> value, chosen (approximately) uniformly from the
     * range <tt>0.0d</tt> (inclusive) to <tt>1.0d</tt> (exclusive), is
     * pseudorandomly generated and returned. All
     * 2<font size="-1"><sup>53</sup></font> possible <tt>float</tt>
     * values of the form <i>m x </i>2<font size="-1"><sup>-53</sup>
     * </font>, where <i>m</i> is a positive integer less than
     * 2<font size="-1"><sup>53</sup></font>, are produced with
     * (approximately) equal probability. The method <tt>nextDouble</tt> is
     * implemented by class <tt>Random</tt> as follows:
     * <blockquote><pre>
     * public double nextDouble() {
     *       return (((long)next(26) << 27) + next(27))
     *           / (double)(1L << 53);
     * }</pre></blockquote><p>
     * The hedge "approximately" is used in the foregoing description only
     * because the <tt>next</tt> method is only approximately an unbiased
     * source of independently chosen bits. If it were a perfect source or
     * randomly chosen bits, then the algorithm shown would choose
     * <tt>double</tt> values from the stated range with perfect uniformity.
     * <p>[In early versions of Java, the result was incorrectly calculated as:
     * <blockquote><pre>
     *  return (((long)next(27) << 27) + next(27))
     *      / (double)(1L << 54);</pre></blockquote>
     * This might seem to be equivalent, if not better, but in fact it
     * introduced a large nonuniformity because of the bias in the rounding
     * of floating-point numbers: it was three times as likely that the
     * low-order bit of the significand would be 0 than that it would be
     * 1! This nonuniformity probably doesn't matter much in practice, but
     * we strive for perfection.]
     *
     * @return  the next pseudorandom, uniformly distributed
     *          <code>double</code> value between <code>0.0</code> and
     *          <code>1.0</code> from this random number generator's sequence.
     * @since   CLDC 1.1
     */
    public double nextDouble() {
        long l = ((long)(next(26)) << 27) + next(27);
        return l / (double)(1L << 53);
    }

}