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Some WIP on documentation refactoring (#2659) 
* Additional .gitignore entries

* Merge a bunch of small articles about system tables into single one

* Merge a bunch of small articles about formats into single one

* Adapt table with formats to English docs too

* Add SPb meetup link to main page

* Move Utilities out of top level of docs (the location is probably not yet final) + translate couple articles

* Merge MacOS.md into build_osx.md

* Move Data types higher in ToC

* Publish changelog on website alongside documentation

* Few fixes for en/table_engines/file.md

* Use smaller header sizes in changelogs

* Group up table engines inside ToC

* Move table engines out of top level too

* Specificy in ToC that query language is SQL based. Thats a bit excessive, but catches eye.

* Move stuff that is part of query language into respective folder

* Move table functions lower in ToC

* Lost redirects.txt update

* Do not rely on comments in yaml + fix few ru titles

* Extract major parts of queries.md into separate articles

* queries.md has been supposed to be removed

* Fix weird translation

* Fix a bunch of links

* There is only table of contents left

* "Query language" is actually part of SQL abbreviation

* Change filename in README.md too

* fix mistype
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Functions for generating pseudo-random numbers

Non-cryptographic generators of pseudo-random numbers are used.

All the functions accept zero arguments or one argument. If an argument is passed, it can be any type, and its value is not used for anything. The only purpose of this argument is to prevent common subexpression elimination, so that two different instances of the same function return different columns with different random numbers.

rand

Returns a pseudo-random UInt32 number, evenly distributed among all UInt32-type numbers. Uses a linear congruential generator.

rand64

Returns a pseudo-random UInt64 number, evenly distributed among all UInt64-type numbers. Uses a linear congruential generator.