RAND_MAX - cppreference.com (original) (raw)

| | | | | ---------------------------------------------- | | | | #define RAND_MAX /*implementation defined*/ | | |

Expands to an integer constant expression equal to the maximum value returned by the function std::rand. This value is implementation dependent. It's guaranteed that this value is at least 32767.

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#include #include #include #include   int main() { // use current time as seed for random generator std::srand(std::time(NULL));   std::cout << "RAND_MAX: " << RAND_MAX << '\n' << "INT_MAX: " << INT_MAX << '\n' << "Random value on [0,1]: " << static_cast(std::rand()) / RAND_MAX << '\n'; }

Possible output:

RAND_MAX: 2147483647 INT_MAX: 2147483647 Random value on [0,1]: 0.618608

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