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13 #include <comphelper/random.hxx>
14 #include <rtl/instance.hxx>
15 #include <sal/log.hxx>
21 // this is nothing but a simple wrapper around
22 // the std::random generators
29 // underlying random number generator
30 // std::mt19937 implements the Mersenne twister algorithm which
31 // is fast and has good statistical properties, it produces integers
32 // in the range of [0, 2^32-1] internally
33 // memory requirement: 625*sizeof(uint32_t)
34 // http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mersenne_twister
35 #define STD_RNG_ALGO std::mt19937
37 struct RandomNumberGenerator
39 STD_RNG_ALGO global_rng
;
40 RandomNumberGenerator()
44 std::random_device rd
;
45 // initialises the state of the global random number generator
46 // should only be called once.
47 // (note, a few std::variate_generator<> (like normal) have their
48 // own state which would need a reset as well to guarantee identical
49 // sequence of numbers, e.g. via myrand.distribution().reset())
50 global_rng
.seed(rd() ^ time(nullptr));
52 catch (std::runtime_error
& e
)
54 SAL_WARN("comphelper.random", "Using std::random_device failed: " << e
.what());
55 global_rng
.seed(time(nullptr));
60 class theRandomNumberGenerator
: public rtl::Static
<RandomNumberGenerator
, theRandomNumberGenerator
> {};
62 // re-initialises the state of the global random number generator
65 return theRandomNumberGenerator::get().global_rng
.seed(i
);
68 // uniform ints [a,b] distribution
69 int uniform_int_distribution(int a
, int b
)
71 std::uniform_int_distribution
<int> dist(a
, b
);
72 return dist(theRandomNumberGenerator::get().global_rng
);
75 // uniform ints [a,b] distribution
76 unsigned int uniform_uint_distribution(unsigned int a
, unsigned int b
)
78 std::uniform_int_distribution
<unsigned int> dist(a
, b
);
79 return dist(theRandomNumberGenerator::get().global_rng
);
82 // uniform size_t [a,b] distribution
83 size_t uniform_size_distribution(size_t a
, size_t b
)
85 std::uniform_int_distribution
<size_t> dist(a
, b
);
86 return dist(theRandomNumberGenerator::get().global_rng
);
89 // uniform size_t [a,b) distribution
90 double uniform_real_distribution(double a
, double b
)
93 std::uniform_real_distribution
<double> dist(a
, b
);
94 return dist(theRandomNumberGenerator::get().global_rng
);
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