This document discusses generating pseudo-random numbers in C. It introduces the rand() and srand() functions. rand() is used to generate random numbers, while srand() sets the seed value for the random number generator to control the numbers generated. The document recommends using the current time from time() as the seed value for srand() to get changing random numbers each time the code is run. It then provides an example of printing randomly generated numbers in a loop.
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In this pdf file a tutorial is written on the topic of generating random numbers in C.
This document discusses generating pseudo-random numbers in C. It introduces the rand() and srand() functions. rand() is used to generate random numbers, while srand() sets the seed value for the random number generator to control the numbers generated. The document recommends using the current time from time() as the seed value for srand() to get changing random numbers each time the code is run. It then provides an example of printing randomly generated numbers in a loop.
This document discusses generating pseudo-random numbers in C. It introduces the rand() and srand() functions. rand() is used to generate random numbers, while srand() sets the seed value for the random number generator to control the numbers generated. The document recommends using the current time from time() as the seed value for srand() to get changing random numbers each time the code is run. It then provides an example of printing randomly generated numbers in a loop.
experiments".please watch that video first then read this document. first of all like all C programs we added library files.namely 'stdio.h',stdlib.h' and 'time.h' for using standard input output,standard library, and time header files respectfully.in this tutorial we will use pseudo random number generating algorithm .to use this algorithm C provides two strong standard library functions namely rand() and srand().both have their own works in this algorithm.rand() function is used to generate as much as random numbers as we want.a disadvantage of using rand() without srand() is that it will always generate same numbers every time we run the code.this is because pseudo algorithm uses a seed value to generate random numbers.in this case every time seed value is same which is it's default value it will generate same numbers.To overcome this limitation we mannually setupped seed value for algorithm.This is done by function srand(). The parameter passed to it is the seed value we want.IN our case we want changing seed values so we used time().time() function returns current time.since time is continuosly changing so we can use current time as our seed value.time() function needs a parameter which is the base address of a varible where we want to save current time.We passed simply NULL to time() because we do not want to save time in our code. At last we simply printed these numbers in a loop with standard library function printf().
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