Rndm

From: KOSU_FOKIN@garbo.lucas.lu.se
Date: Sat Oct 30 1999 - 20:25:59 MEST 

Could you tell me what Int_t argument is for in Rndm : 

 Float_t TRandom::Rndm(Int_t)
{
//  Machine independent random number generator.
//  Produces uniformly-distributed floating points between 0 and 1.
//  Identical sequence on all machines of >= 32 bits.
//  Periodicity = 10**8
//  Universal version (Fred james 1985).

   const Float_t kCONS = 4.6566128730774E-10;
   const Int_t kMASK31 = 2147483647;

   fSeed *= 69069;
      // keep only lower 31 bits
   fSeed &= kMASK31;
      // Set lower 8 bits to zero to assure exact float
   Int_t jy = (fSeed/256)*256;
   Float_t random = kCONS*jy;
   return random;
}

best,
Anton

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