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💅 NAME 💅

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

okay so that's the whole name, bestie — it's a path, not a personality, but we move. This is the zlarnd.f page from the LAPACK library functions manual (section 3). 🎀

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✨ SYNOPSIS ✨

🦋 Functions/Subroutines 🦋

• complex *16 function ZLARND (idist, iseed) — literally just ZLARND, that's the whole vibe

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💖 Function/Subroutine Documentation 💖

🌸 complex*16 function ZLARND (integer idist, integer, dimension( 4 ) iseed) 🌸

ZLARND. that's it, that's the subroutine. 💀

🎀 Purpose:

!>
!> ZLARND returns a random complex number from a uniform or normal
!> distribution.
!>

no cap — it hands you back a random complex number, and you get to pick whether it comes from a uniform or a normal distribution. iconic behavior honestly. 🔥

⭐ Parameters

IDIST

!>          IDIST is INTEGER
!>          Specifies the distribution of the random numbers:
!>          = 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
!>

so IDIST is an INTEGER and it's the whole vibe check for your random numbers. the options, fr fr:

• = 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 fighter. 🌈

ISEED

!>          ISEED is INTEGER array, dimension (4)
!>          On entry, the seed of the random number generator; the array
!>          elements must be between 0 and 4095, and ISEED(4) must be
!>          odd.
!>          On exit, the seed is updated.
!>

ISEED is an INTEGER array with dimension (4). on entry it's the seed of the random number generator — and listen, the array elements must be between 0 and 4095, and ISEED(4) must be odd. like, mandatory mandatory. 🫶 on exit the seed gets updated, so it's giving main character energy and evolving as it goes. 💫

seriously tho, ISEED(4) odd and everything in 0–4095 — those are the rules, no skipping them. 🙈

👑 Author

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

the whole squad, we love to see it. 💜

🔥 Further Details:

!>
!>  This routine calls the auxiliary routine DLARAN to generate a random
!>  real number from a uniform (0,1) distribution. The Box-Muller method
!>  is used to transform numbers from a uniform to a normal distribution.
!>

iykyk — this routine calls the auxiliary routine DLARAN to generate a random real number from a uniform (0,1) distribution, and the Box-Muller method is used to transform numbers from a uniform to a normal distribution. math girlies ate that one. 🧚

💫 Definition at line 74 of file zlarnd.f.

🍓 Author

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(not me being auto-generated by Doxygen 😭 slay I guess)

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okay that's the whole page, bestie — and the sign-off: this is LAPACK, Version 3.12.0, dated /home/abui...N/zlarnd.f(3). go forth and generate some random complex numbers, you've got this 💅✨🌷