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<h1>KnuthUniformRng Class Reference</h1><!-- doxytag: class="QuantLib::KnuthUniformRng" --><code>#include &lt;ql/RandomNumbers/knuthuniformrng.hpp&gt;</code>
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Uniform random number generator. 
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Random number generator by Knuth. For more details see Knuth, Seminumerical Algorithms, 3rd edition, Section 3.6. <dl class="note" compact><dt><b>Note:</b></dt><dd>This is <b>not</b> Knuth's original implementation which is available at <a href="http://www-cs-faculty.stanford.edu/~knuth/programs.html,">http://www-cs-faculty.stanford.edu/~knuth/programs.html,</a> but rather a slightly modified version wrapped in a C++ class. Such modifications did not affect the code but only the data structures used, which were converted to their standard C++ equivalents. </dd></dl>

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if the given seed is 0, a random seed will be chosen based on clock() 
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returns a sample with weight 1.0 containing a random number uniformly chosen from (0.0,1.0) 
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