clojure.core/rand

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Type: function Added: Clojure 1.0 Examples: 2 Runnable: 2

([] [n])

Returns a random floating point number between 0 (inclusive) and n (default 1) (exclusive).

Examples

by devijvers on 2010-07-20 ▶

;; Test `rand` never returns `n`: (some (partial <= 10) (take 100000 (repeatedly (fn [] (int (rand 10)))))) nil

by zk on 2010-10-06 ▶

(rand) 0.17469201779243182 (rand 100) 49.542391492950834

See also

• clojure.core/rand-int (1)
• clojure.core/rand-nth (0)
• clojure.core/shuffle

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