%% %% %CopyrightBegin% %% %% Copyright Ericsson AB 1996-2009. All Rights Reserved. %% %% The contents of this file are subject to the Erlang Public License, %% Version 1.1, (the "License"); you may not use this file except in %% compliance with the License. You should have received a copy of the %% Erlang Public License along with this software. If not, it can be %% retrieved online at http://www.erlang.org/. %% %% Software distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" %% basis, WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, either express or implied. See %% the License for the specific language governing rights and limitations %% under the License. %% %% %CopyrightEnd% %% -module(random). %% Reasonable random number generator. %% The method is attributed to B. A. Wichmann and I. D. Hill %% See "An efficient and portable pseudo-random number generator", %% Journal of Applied Statistics. AS183. 1982. Also Byte March 1987. -export([seed/0, seed/1, seed/3, uniform/0, uniform/1, uniform_s/1, uniform_s/2, seed0/0]). %%----------------------------------------------------------------------- %% The type of the state -type ran() :: {integer(), integer(), integer()}. %%----------------------------------------------------------------------- -spec seed0() -> ran(). seed0() -> {3172, 9814, 20125}. %% seed() %% Seed random number generation with default values -spec seed() -> ran(). seed() -> reseed(seed0()). %% seed({A1, A2, A3}) %% Seed random number generation -spec seed({integer(), integer(), integer()}) -> 'undefined' | ran(). seed({A1, A2, A3}) -> seed(A1, A2, A3). %% seed(A1, A2, A3) %% Seed random number generation -spec seed(integer(), integer(), integer()) -> 'undefined' | ran(). seed(A1, A2, A3) -> put(random_seed, {abs(A1) rem 30269, abs(A2) rem 30307, abs(A3) rem 30323}). -spec reseed(ran()) -> ran(). reseed({A1, A2, A3}) -> case seed(A1, A2, A3) of undefined -> seed0(); {_,_,_} = Tuple -> Tuple end. %% uniform() %% Returns a random float between 0 and 1. -spec uniform() -> float(). uniform() -> {A1, A2, A3} = case get(random_seed) of undefined -> seed0(); Tuple -> Tuple end, B1 = (A1*171) rem 30269, B2 = (A2*172) rem 30307, B3 = (A3*170) rem 30323, put(random_seed, {B1,B2,B3}), R = A1/30269 + A2/30307 + A3/30323, R - trunc(R). %% uniform(N) -> I %% Given an integer N >= 1, uniform(N) returns a random integer %% between 1 and N. -spec uniform(pos_integer()) -> pos_integer(). uniform(N) when is_integer(N), N >= 1 -> trunc(uniform() * N) + 1. %%% Functional versions %% uniform_s(State) -> {F, NewState} %% Returns a random float between 0 and 1. -spec uniform_s(ran()) -> {float(), ran()}. uniform_s({A1, A2, A3}) -> B1 = (A1*171) rem 30269, B2 = (A2*172) rem 30307, B3 = (A3*170) rem 30323, R = A1/30269 + A2/30307 + A3/30323, {R - trunc(R), {B1,B2,B3}}. %% uniform_s(N, State) -> {I, NewState} %% Given an integer N >= 1, uniform(N) returns a random integer %% between 1 and N. -spec uniform_s(pos_integer(), ran()) -> {integer(), ran()}. uniform_s(N, State0) when is_integer(N), N >= 1 -> {F, State1} = uniform_s(State0), {trunc(F * N) + 1, State1}.