On Sun, Mar 23, 2003 at 09:30:12PM -0000, Rob Dixon wrote: > Careful inspection shows that each of your random numbers is exactly > divisible by 3.0517578125. Dividing your range of 100000 by this > figure (magically, for those who know their powers of two) gives > 32768, showing that 'rand' is in fact producing a 15-bit pseudo-random > number scaled according to the range that you supply.
Which seems pretty low, but is the default on Windows, I think. Check RANDBITS when you Configure perl if that seems wrong. -- Paul Johnson - [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.pjcj.net -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
