Java Programming by Pearson

Basic Utility Classes • 599

19.5 THE RANDOM CLASS

The class is defi ned within java.util package. An instance of this class is used to generate a stream of

pseudorandom numbers. These numbers are called so, as they are uniformly distributed over a range of

numbers. The numbers are generated randomly on the basis of some initial value known as seed value.

There are two different constructor forms of this class:

1. public Random()

This form of constructor creates a new random number generator. The default seed for this is the

current time.

2. public Random(long seed);

This form of constructor creates a new random number generator ...