Re^4: Randomising the order of an array

Numbers can repeat more often than rand's period, but you're right, it won't happen often.

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Re^5: Randomising the order of an array by Anonymous Monk on Jul 19, 2005 at 20:14 UTC
Numbers can repeat more often than rand's period, but you're right, it won't happen often. I haven't check the actual source code, but I'm fairly confident that if your perl is using `drand48`, you won't get repeats any sooner than the period of the RNG (2**48).	[reply] [d/l]