Re^2: Randomizing Large Integers

From what I've read, rand is dependent on whats installed on the OS. On this system, when feeding rand with integers > 32768, the distribution of values returned (from multiple calls using the same number) breaks down badly. So this seems to support 15 bits.

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Re^3: Randomizing Large Integers by syphilis (Archbishop) on May 20, 2008 at 08:01 UTC
Running `perl -V:randbits` will tell you how many random bits your perl's rand() has. Cheers, Rob	[reply] [d/l]
Re^4: Randomizing Large Integers by ysth (Canon) on May 21, 2008 at 04:49 UTC
Or, if you want it programmatically: `use Config; print $Config{'randbits'};` [download] -- Online Fortune Cookie Search	[reply] [d/l]