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<div class="block">Abstract base class for uniform pseudo-random number generating engines.
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Most probability distributions are obtained by using a <b>uniform</b> pseudo-random number generation engine
followed by a transformation to the desired distribution.
Thus, subclasses of this class are at the core of computational statistics, simulations, Monte Carlo methods, etc.
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Subclasses produce uniformly distributed <tt>int</tt>'s and <tt>long</tt>'s in the closed intervals
<tt>[Integer.MIN_VALUE,Integer.MAX_VALUE]</tt> and <tt>[Long.MIN_VALUE,Long.MAX_VALUE]</tt>, respectively,
as well as <tt>float</tt>'s and <tt>double</tt>'s in the open unit intervals <tt>(0.0f,1.0f)</tt> and
<tt>(0.0,1.0)</tt>, respectively.
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Subclasses need to override one single method only: <tt>nextInt()</tt>.
All other methods generating different data types or ranges are usually layered upon <tt>nextInt()</tt>.
<tt>long</tt>'s are formed by concatenating two 32 bit <tt>int</tt>'s.
<tt>float</tt>'s are formed by dividing the interval <tt>[0.0f,1.0f]</tt> into 2<sup>32</sup> sub intervals,
then randomly choosing one subinterval.
<tt>double</tt>'s are formed by dividing the interval <tt>[0.0,1.0]</tt> into 2<sup>64</sup> sub intervals,
then randomly choosing one subinterval.
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Note that this implementation is <b>not synchronized</b>.</div>
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<pre>public&nbsp;double&nbsp;apply(double&nbsp;dummy)</pre>
<div class="block">Equivalent to <tt>raw()</tt>. This has the effect that random engines can now be used as function objects,
returning a random number upon function evaluation.</div>
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