in reply to Re^3: Randomizing Large Integers
in thread Randomizing Large Integers

The 15-bit rand function is a Win32 Perl (MS CRT-based) problem. See Re^3: Rand Wackiness! and thread at A better rand() for Win32 for some further discussion.

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