Expand "overview" page (web site). As requested by Emmanuel Bourg.
Project: http://git-wip-us.apache.org/repos/asf/commons-rng/repo Commit: http://git-wip-us.apache.org/repos/asf/commons-rng/commit/c1baba2e Tree: http://git-wip-us.apache.org/repos/asf/commons-rng/tree/c1baba2e Diff: http://git-wip-us.apache.org/repos/asf/commons-rng/diff/c1baba2e Branch: refs/heads/1.0-release Commit: c1baba2ebce449a6ebde68abde393a684b896c2b Parents: e533176 Author: Gilles <er...@apache.org> Authored: Thu Sep 15 18:03:52 2016 +0200 Committer: Gilles <er...@apache.org> Committed: Thu Sep 15 18:03:52 2016 +0200 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- src/site/xdoc/index.xml | 22 +++++++++++++++++++++- 1 file changed, 21 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- http://git-wip-us.apache.org/repos/asf/commons-rng/blob/c1baba2e/src/site/xdoc/index.xml ---------------------------------------------------------------------- diff --git a/src/site/xdoc/index.xml b/src/site/xdoc/index.xml index cadd8ec..dabc77e 100644 --- a/src/site/xdoc/index.xml +++ b/src/site/xdoc/index.xml @@ -27,7 +27,27 @@ <section name="Apache Commons RNG: Random Numbers Generators" href="summary"> <p> - Commons RNG provides implementations of pseudo-random numbers generators. + Commons RNG provides implementations of pseudo-random numbers generators that are + either faster or of higher quality (and sometimes both) than <code>java.lang.Random</code>. + </p> + + <p> + Casual use is as simple as: + +<source>import org.apache.commons.rng.UniformRandomProvider; +import org.apache.commons.rng.RandomSource; + +// Instantiate a "Mersenne-Twister" generator with a factory method. +UniformRandomProvider rng = RandomSource.create(RandomSource.MT); + +// Use it to produce a floating-point value between 0 and 1. +double random = rng.nextDouble(); +</source> + + </p> + + <p> + For more examples and more advanced usage, see the <a href="userguide/rng.html">userguide</a>. </p> </section>
