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Question

What does Random do? (Java) and in General

Answer 1

Random class is used to generate random numbers in Java. (There are two other ways to generate random numbers in Java: Math.random method and ThreadLocalRandom class.)

Here is an example how to use Random:

import java.util.Random;

public class RandomNumber {

public static void main(String []args){

Random random = new Random();

// Returns random number between 0 (inclusive) and 100 (exclusive).

int number = random.nextInt(100);

System.out.println("Generated random number:" + number);

}

}

Answer 2

Random is a class in Java (Java.util.Random) It is used for generating random numbers. Most modern languages have their own version of this. For example, in Python you can import the random module which will give you similar functionality.