Wait, I screwed up that last email.  The uniques is the number of hash keys.

At 10:53 AM 12/1/2005 -0500, Ted Schuerzinger wrote:
>> for (1 .. 10000) {
>>      my $fn = rand();
>>         ++$dup and next if exists $num{$fn};
>>      $num{$fn} = 1;
>> }
>> print scalar keys %num, " unique numbers. $dup duplicates produced\n";
>> 
>
>Just for fun, I changed one of the lines in that to 
>
>for (1 .. 1000000) {
>
>When I ran the modified script, I got 32768 unique numbers, with 967232 
>duplicates!  As 32768 is a power of 2, I'm wondering if there's a limit on 
>the number of keys one may have in a hash.




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