On 30-Aug-07, at 2:52 PM, Guy Hulbert wrote:
Actually, I think the right answer is just a sequence generator (mod 10000). That guarantees different consecutive results.
I think so too. In my testing perl only switches to floating point at or around 2**50 on 32 bit platforms, which should allow enough email between restarts for even the fastest mail systems on the planet.
Consider rand() gone and a sequence used instead. Matt.