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Function std.random.unpredictableSeed

A "good" seed for initializing random number engines. Initializing with unpredictableSeed makes engines generate different random number sequences every run.

Prototype

uint unpredictableSeed() @property @trusted;

Returns

A single unsigned integer seed value, different on each successive call

Example

auto rnd = Random(unpredictableSeed);
auto n = rnd.front;
...

Authors

Andrei Alexandrescu Masahiro Nakagawa (Xorshift random generator) Joseph Rushton Wakeling (Algorithm D for random sampling)

License

Boost License 1.0.

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