Thanks. The article was very interesting, and produced a very useful piece of information. 

E:\perl5.8.1\bin>.\perl -MPOSIX=RAND_MAX -e"print RAND_MAX"

32767

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So, as of perl 5.8.1, rand is limited to 15-bits! S'funny how long you can go with discovering, reading about or falling foul of these things. Anyway. I have now added 
use Math::Random::MT qw[ srand rand ];

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to my .pl template file.

This uses The Mersenne Twister PRNG, rather than a Linear Congruential one, and is good for producing the full range of 32-bit unsigned integers.

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In reply to Re: Re: Re: Re: A little C code converted to Perl *HELP* by BrowserUk
in thread A little C code converted to Perl *HELP* by regnab

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