Here you can find the source of nextLong()
public static long nextLong()
//package com.java2s; /*//from w w w . j av a 2 s . c o m * Created on Dec 30, 2005 * Created by Alon Rohter * Copyright (C) Azureus Software, Inc, All Rights Reserved. * * This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or * modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License * as published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 * of the License, or (at your option) any later version. * This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, * but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of * MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the * GNU General Public License for more details. * You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License * along with this program; if not, write to the Free Software * Foundation, Inc., 59 Temple Place - Suite 330, Boston, MA 02111-1307, USA. * */ import java.util.Random; public class Main { public static final Random RANDOM = new Random(System.currentTimeMillis()); public static long nextLong() { return RANDOM.nextLong(); } public static long nextLong(long n) { if (n > Integer.MAX_VALUE) { while (true) { long rand = nextAbsoluteLong(); long res = rand % n; // deal with non-uniformity as rand not generally divisible by n if (rand - res + (n - 1) >= 0) { return (res); } } } return ((long) RANDOM.nextInt((int) n)); } public static long nextAbsoluteLong() { return ((RANDOM.nextLong() << 1) >>> 1); } public static int nextInt(int n) { return RANDOM.nextInt(n); } public static int nextInt() { return RANDOM.nextInt(); } }