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class="special"><</span> <a class="link" href="monomorphic/random_t.html" title="Class template random_t">monomorphic::random_t</a><span class="special"><</span><span class="special">></span> <span class="special">></span> <span class="identifier">random</span><span class="special">(</span><span class="special">)</span><span class="special">;</span> 36<span class="keyword">template</span><span class="special"><</span><span class="keyword">typename</span> SampleType<span class="special">></span> 37 <a class="link" href="monomorphic/generated_by.html" title="Class template generated_by">monomorphic::generated_by</a><span class="special"><</span> <a class="link" href="monomorphic/random_t.html" title="Class template random_t">monomorphic::random_t</a><span class="special"><</span> <span class="identifier">SampleType</span> <span class="special">></span> <span class="special">></span> 38 <span class="identifier">random</span><span class="special">(</span><span class="identifier">SampleType</span> begin<span class="special">,</span> <span class="identifier">SampleType</span> end<span class="special">)</span><span class="special">;</span> 39<span class="keyword">template</span><span class="special"><</span><span class="keyword">typename</span> Params<span class="special">></span> <span class="emphasis"><em><span class="identifier">unspecified</span></em></span> <span class="identifier">random</span><span class="special">(</span><span class="identifier">Params</span> <span class="keyword">const</span> <span class="special">&</span> params<span class="special">)</span><span class="special">;</span></pre></div> 40<div class="refsect1"> 41<a name="idm46175622714864"></a><h2>Description</h2> 42<p>The following overloads are available: </p> 43<pre class="programlisting"><span class="keyword">auto</span> <span class="identifier">d</span> <span class="special">=</span> <span class="identifier">random</span><span class="special">(</span><span class="special">)</span><span class="special">;</span> 44<span class="keyword">auto</span> <span class="identifier">d</span> <span class="special">=</span> <span class="identifier">random</span><span class="special">(</span><span class="identifier">begin</span><span class="special">,</span> <span class="identifier">end</span><span class="special">)</span><span class="special">;</span> 45<span class="keyword">auto</span> <span class="identifier">d</span> <span class="special">=</span> <span class="identifier">random</span><span class="special">(</span><span class="identifier">params</span><span class="special">)</span><span class="special">;</span> 46</pre> 47<div class="itemizedlist"><ul class="itemizedlist" style="list-style-type: disc; "> 48<li class="listitem"><p>The first overload uses the default distribution, which is uniform and which elements are <code class="computeroutput">double</code> type (the values are in [0, 1) ).</p></li> 49<li class="listitem"><p>The second overload generates numbers in the given interval. The distribution is uniform (in [begin, end) for real numbers, and in [begin, end] for integers). The type of the distribution is deduced from the type of the <code class="computeroutput">begin</code> and <code class="computeroutput">end</code> parameters.</p></li> 50<li class="listitem"> 51<p>The third overload generates numbers using the named parameter inside <code class="computeroutput">params</code> , which are:</p> 52<div class="itemizedlist"><ul class="itemizedlist" style="list-style-type: circle; "> 53<li class="listitem"><p><code class="computeroutput">distribution:</code> the distribution used. In this overload, since the type of the samples cannot be deduced, the samples are of type <code class="computeroutput">double</code> and the distribution is uniform real in [0, 1).</p></li> 54<li class="listitem"><p><code class="computeroutput">seed:</code> the seed for generating the values</p></li> 55<li class="listitem"><p><code class="computeroutput">engine:</code> the random number generator engine</p></li> 56</ul></div> 57<p> 58</p> 59</li> 60</ul></div> 61<p> 62</p> 63<p>The function returns an object that implements the dataset API. </p> 64<div class="note"><table border="0" summary="Note"> 65<tr> 66<td rowspan="2" align="center" valign="top" width="25"><img alt="[Note]" src="../../../../../../../doc/src/images/note.png"></td> 67<th align="left">Note</th> 68</tr> 69<tr><td align="left" valign="top"><p>This function is available only for C++11 capable compilers. </p></td></tr> 70</table></div> 71<p> 72</p> 73</div> 74</div> 75<table xmlns:rev="http://www.cs.rpi.edu/~gregod/boost/tools/doc/revision" width="100%"><tr> 76<td align="left"></td> 77<td align="right"><div class="copyright-footer">Copyright © 2001-2020 Boost.Test contributors<p> 78 Distributed under the Boost Software License, Version 1.0. 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