Random integers

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The following routines return random integers of the given type uniformly distributed in [min, max]. These are member functions of Random.

Definitions of routines returning integers

routine	type	min	max
Integer<IntType, b>()	IntType	0	2b - 1
Integer<b>()	unsigned	0	2b - 1
Integer();	unsigned	0	std::numeric_limits<unsigned>::max()
Integer<IntType>()	IntType	std::numeric_limits<IntType>::min()	std::numeric_limits<IntType>::max()
Boolean()	bool	false	true
Integer<IntType>(IntType n)	IntType	0	n - 1 (if n == 0, std::numeric_limits<IntType>::max(); if n < 0, 0)
IntegerC<IntType>(IntType n)	IntType	0	n (if n < 0, 0)
IntegerC<IntType>(IntType m, IntType n)	IntType	m	n (if n < m, m)
operator()()	Random::result_type	0	2w - 1
operator()(result_type n)	Random::result_type	0	n - 1 (if n == 0, std::numeric_limits<result_type>::max())

Here w = Random::width. For the default random generator, result_type is an unsigned int and w = 32.

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