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  The several flavors of random in Java

Random number generation is one of most basic features in any programming language. The basic utilization is always the same: generate a random number between 0 and 1. With such a simple resource at hand we sometimes overlook some interesting features.What do we learn from the books?The most obvious and maybe intuitive way to generate random numbers in Java is simply calling:java.lang.Math.random()Random generation is in the Math utility class with abs, pow, floor, sqrt and other mathematical functions we see in all other languages. Most people will learn about this class...

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