in reply to Generating random 6 digit numbers

Why use a tied hash when a normal old hash will do just fine? Store your numbers as the keys. Math::TrulyRandom generates numbers from interrupt timing discrepancies. It's pretty slow. Generally you should just use it to seed your pseudo random number generator. You might want to have a look at EGD - the Entropy Gathering Daemon.
-sauoq
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Re: Re: Generating random 6 digit numbers
by Anonymous Monk on Aug 25, 2002 at 17:46 UTC
    Thanks for your reply. The tied hash would be used because this program would run as a cron job and therefore would not know which numbers the previous run had generated.