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new(p1 = v1) public

Creates a new PRNG using seed to set the initial state. If seed is omitted, the generator is initialized with Random.new_seed.

See Random.srand for more information on the use of seed values.

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static VALUE
random_init(int argc, VALUE *argv, VALUE obj)
{
    VALUE vseed;
    rb_random_t *rnd = get_rnd(obj);

    if (argc == 0) {
        rb_check_frozen(obj);
        vseed = random_seed();
    }
    else {
        rb_scan_args(argc, argv, "01", &vseed);
        rb_check_copyable(obj, vseed);
    }
    rnd->seed = rand_init(&rnd->mt, vseed);
    return obj;
}

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