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Value Creators

This section includes a couple of predefined functions which, in some sense, create new values.

time()

returns the system time in seconds since 00:00 Universal Coordinated Time, January 1, 1970. The value returned is of type double.
random(): returns a random integer.
random(n): returns n random integers.
random(start,stop): returns a random integer which is greater than or equal to start and less than or equal to stop.

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