I posted a very simple (and apparently bad) RNG and got a lot of good advice so here is my next shot at an RNG. Only problem is the numbers start too repeat after 5 iterations. not exactly a finished product and will try to make the seed more random latter but for now i just need to know why it repeats.

fixed 
use warnings;
use strict;
use Digest::SHA 'sha384_hex';

my $randseed;
my $randNum;
my $salt = "salty";

print RandomMutation()."\n" for 0..100;

sub RandomMutation{
    $randseed = trim( convertToAscii( sha384_hex( crypt( rand(100000),
+ $salt) . localtime())  ) );
    
    srand( $randseed );
    $randNum = int rand 10000;
    $salt = trim( ( ( ( ($randNum / 2) + ($randseed * 1.427) + ($$ * 4
+) ** 2)) * 1.618) );
    return $randNum;
}

sub convertToAscii{

    my $convertToAscii = shift;
    my $ConvertedAscii = "";
    
    foreach(split //, $convertToAscii){
        $ConvertedAscii = $ConvertedAscii . ord $_ ;
    }
    
    return $ConvertedAscii;
}

sub trim{
    my $TrimNum = shift;
    
    $TrimNum = substr $TrimNum, 5, 9;
    return $TrimNum;
}

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