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Rand

• in South Africa:
• rand is an afrikaans word for ridge, and Witwatersrand (literally white water Ridge) was the name given to a ridge that ran through Gauteng; the gold-producing reef ran parallel with this ridge, and the mining areas east and west of Johannesburg became known as the East and West Rands
• the Rand thus became the word for South Africa's currency (see also Krugerrand)
• Rand is a small town in Australia
• Rand is a small village in Lincolnshire, U.K.

• People named Rand include:
• Ayn Rand, American writer
• Austin L. Rand, Canadian zoologist
• Rand al'Thor, the main character in Robert Jordan's The Wheel of Time series
• a character from Robotech New Generation sage
• Ivan Rand, Supreme Court of Canada justice who introduced the Rand formula in labor law

• RAND or Rand is also used as an abbreviation or acronym of:
• the phrase “Research ANd Development” in the name of the RAND Corporation
• Reasonable and Non Discriminatory Licensing
• any of a number of pseudorandom number generators functions
• the name “Randall”

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