[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Chris Wagner) writes: > At 10:52 AM 12/1/2005 -0500, Ted Schuerzinger wrote: > >You weren't expecting *fewer* duplicates, were you? > > Well actually, among numbers out to 12 decimal places, yes. I'ld say there > should be no duplicates until the number of iterations gets to some > significant proportion of the combinations. The combinations in this case > are 10^12. I tried 10^5 times. *Plenty* of headroom there for non > duplicates.
Check this link http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Birthday_paradox Regards, Gisle _______________________________________________ Perl-Win32-Users mailing list [email protected] To unsubscribe: http://listserv.ActiveState.com/mailman/mysubs
