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- The most useful pairing for most applications is the `mt19937` engine with `uniform_int_distribution`, as shown in the [code example](#code) later in this article.

There are many options to choose from in the `<random>` header, and any of them is preferable to the outdated C Runtime function `rand()`. For information about what's wrong with `rand()` and how `<random>` addresses these shortcomings, see [this video](http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/LinkId=397615).
There are many options to choose from in the `<random>` header, and any of them is preferable to the outdated C Runtime function `rand()`. For information about what's wrong with `rand()` and how `<random>` addresses these shortcomings, see [this video](http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=397615).

## <a name="code"></a> Examples
The following code example shows how to generate some random numbers in this case five of them using a generator created with non-deterministic seed.
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