in reply to Re^2: Rand Wackiness!
in thread Rand Wackiness!

To quote the documentation for the rand function:

(Note: If your rand function consistently returns numbers that are too large or too small, then your version of Perl was probably compiled with the wrong number of RANDBITS.)

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"Being forced to write comments actually improves code, because it is easier to fix a crock than to explain it. "
—G. Steele

In Section Seekers of Perl Wisdom