text: Random number generator in arbitrary probability distribution fashion | C program to generate random numbers according to given frequency distribution ; Utility function to find ceiling of r in arr [ l . . h ] ; Same as mid = ( l + h ) / 2 ; The main function that returns a random number from arr [ ] according to distribution array defined by freq [ ] . n is size of arrays . ; Create and fill prefix array ; prefix [ n - 1 ] is sum of all frequencies . Generate a random number with value from 1 to this sum ; Find index of ceiling of r in prefix arrat ; Driver program to test above functions ; Use a different seed value for every run . ; Let us generate 10 random numbers accroding to given distribution
code: #include <stdio.h> NEW_LINE #include <stdlib.h> NEW_LINE int findCeil ( int arr [ ] , int r , int l , int h ) { int mid ; while ( l < h ) { mid = l + ( ( h - l ) >> 1 ) ; ( r > arr [ mid ] ) ? ( l = mid + 1 ) : ( h = mid ) ; } return ( arr [ l ] >= r ) ? l : -1 ; } int myRand ( int arr [ ] , int freq [ ] , int n ) { int prefix [ n ] , i ; prefix [ 0 ] = freq [ 0 ] ; for ( i = 1 ; i < n ; ++ i ) prefix [ i ] = prefix [ i - 1 ] + freq [ i ] ; int r = ( rand ( ) % prefix [ n - 1 ] ) + 1 ; int indexc = findCeil ( prefix , r , 0 , n - 1 ) ; return arr [ indexc ] ; } int main ( ) { int arr [ ] = { 1 , 2 , 3 , 4 } ; int freq [ ] = { 10 , 5 , 20 , 100 } ; int i , n = sizeof ( arr ) / sizeof ( arr [ 0 ] ) ; srand ( time ( NULL ) ) ; for ( i = 0 ; i < 5 ; i ++ ) printf ( " % d STRNEWLINE " , myRand ( arr , freq , n ) ) ; return 0 ; }