bench: refactor the generation of sort arrays to include randomness

[pranavthakur0-0]

Resolves #10415 .

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• improves sorted array generation in C benchmarks for sorted-input packages by adding a random factor to the generated values using the already existing rand_double()/rand_float() functions and srand( time( NULL ) ) seeding, which were previously unused. Affected packages: stats/strided/dminsorted, stats/strided/dmaxsorted, stats/strided/dmediansorted, stats/strided/sminsorted, stats/strided/smaxsorted, stats/strided/smediansorted, stats/strided/dmaxabssorted, and stats/strided/smaxabssorted.

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• Improve sorted arrays generation in C benchmarks for sorted-input packages [RFC]: Improve sorted arrays generation in C benchmarks for sorted-input packages #10415

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