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🎀 NAME 🎀

/home/abuild/rpmbuild/BUILD/lapack-static-3.12.0-build/lapack-3.12.0/TESTING/MATGEN/clarnd.f

okay so this is a page from the Library Functions Manual (yes, that's the manual name, we're fancy here 💅) and it's all about one little file, bestie. That path? That's the whole name section. Iconic of it, honestly.

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✨ SYNOPSIS ✨

🫶 Functions/Subroutines

• complex function CLARND (idist, iseed) — CLARND. that's it. that's the entry. she's mysterious, she's brief 🌸

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💖 Function/Subroutine Documentation 💖

complex function CLARND (integer idist, integer, dimension( 4 ) iseed)

CLARND. say her name 🎀

🌈 Purpose:

CLARND hands you back a random complex number, pulled either from a uniform distribution or a normal one. that's the whole vibe. lowkey simple, highkey useful ✨

🦋 Parameters

• IDIST

IDIST is INTEGER.

it tells the routine which distribution to serve up:

• = 1: real and imaginary parts each uniform (0,1)
• = 2: real and imaginary parts each uniform (-1,1)
• = 3: real and imaginary parts each normal (0,1)
• = 4: uniformly distributed on the disc abs(z) <= 1
• = 5: uniformly distributed on the circle abs(z) = 1

five flavors, pick your fave 🍓

• ISEED

ISEED is an INTEGER array, dimension (4).

on entry: this is the seed of the random number generator 🔥 and the rules are strict, bestie — the array elements must be between 0 and 4095, and ISEED(4) must be odd.

on exit: the seed is updated. she moves on, she grows 😭

not me warning you twice: 0 to 4095 for every element, and ISEED(4) odd. do not test her on this.

👑 Author

• Univ. of Tennessee
• Univ. of California Berkeley
• Univ. of Colorado Denver
• NAG Ltd.

four whole institutions collaborated on this. group project that actually ate 💀

⭐ Further Details:

this routine calls the auxiliary routine SLARAN to generate a random real number from a uniform (0,1) distribution. then the Box-Muller method is used to transform numbers from a uniform to a normal distribution. math queen behavior, no cap 🧚

📍 Definition at line 74 of file clarnd.f.

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🌸 Author

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okay that's the whole page, bestie, you ate that reading session fr fr. it's LAPACK, Version 3.12.0, and the date on this one is literally just that same /home/abui...N/clarnd.f(3) path doing double duty — she contains multitudes 💜🦋 periodt.