Rand

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Rand may refer to:

• Rand (currency), the national currency of South Africa.
• The Witwatersrand (literally white water ridge), a ridge that runs through the gold-producing area of Gauteng province, South Africa, which includes Johannesburg as well as:
  • the East Rand
  • the West Rand
• Rand, New South Wales, a small town in Australia
• Rand, Lincolnshire, a small village in Lincolnshire, England
• Rand, Colorado, a small unincorporated community in Jackson County, Colorado, U.S.
• Rand Mining District, an area in Kern County, California, containing the towns of Randsburg, Johannesburg, and Red Mountain.
• Rand index, a technique for measuring the similarity between two data clusters

People named Rand include:

• Ayn Rand, American writer
• Austin L. Rand, Canadian zoologist
• Paul Rand, American graphic designer
• Rand al'Thor, the main character in Robert Jordan's The Wheel of Time fantasy fiction series
• a character from the fictional Third Robotech War
• Ivan Rand, Supreme Court of Canada justice who introduced the Rand formula in labor law

Companies or organizations named Rand include:

• The RAND Corporation, an American think-tank
• Remington Rand, an American computer firm and general manufacturer
• Ingersoll-Rand, a diversified American industrial firm

RAND or Rand is also used as an abbreviation or acronym for:

• Reasonable and Non Discriminatory Licensing
• any of a number of pseudorandom number generator functions

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