ERAND48(3P)

💖 ERAND48(3P) — bestie edition 💖

okay so this is ERAND48, and it lives in the POSIX Programmer's Manual. come sit with me, we're gonna vibe through it together 🫶

🚨 PROLOG 🚨

real talk first, bestie: this manual page is part of the POSIX Programmer's Manual. the Linux implementation of this interface may differ — so if you're on Linux, go consult the corresponding Linux manual page for the deets on Linux behavior. also? it's entirely possible the interface is not implemented on Linux at all. so like... check first, okay? don't come for me 🙈

✨ NAME ✨

erand48 — generate uniformly distributed pseudo-random numbers 🎲✨

like. it makes random numbers. evenly spread. that's the whole gig. iconic behavior honestly.

🌈 SYNOPSIS 🌈

#include <stdlib.h>

double erand48(unsigned short xsubi[3]);

💅 DESCRIPTION 💅

okay so the entire description here is just: refer to drand48(). that's it. that's the whole thing. this page is passing the aux cord to its sibling 🎀

so if you want the actual tea, go read the drand48() page. iykyk 💜

👑 COPYRIGHT 👑

gotta give credit where credit is due, no cap:

Portions of this text are reprinted and reproduced in electronic form from IEEE Std 1003.1-2017, Standard for Information Technology -- Portable Operating System Interface (POSIX), The Open Group Base Specifications Issue 7, 2018 Edition, Copyright (C) 2018 by the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc and The Open Group. In the event of any discrepancy between this version and the original IEEE and The Open Group Standard, the original IEEE and The Open Group Standard is the referee document. The original Standard can be obtained online at http://www.opengroup.org/unix/online.html .

Any typographical or formatting errors that appear in this page are most likely to have been introduced during the conversion of the source files to man page format. To report such errors, see https://www.kernel.org/doc/man-pages/reporting_bugs.html .

translation: if this page and the official standard disagree, the official standard wins. always. periodt. 💀

and that's the whole page, bestie!! 🦋✨ this one came from IEEE/The Open Group, 2017 — so like, big thank you to the IEEE and The Open Group for the lore 🙏 mwah, ERAND48(3P), you ate and left no crumbs 💅🌸