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Re^2: Random Number Generator

by hardburn (Abbot)
on Aug 20, 2013 at 18:24 UTC ( [id://1050220]=note: print w/replies, xml ) Need Help??


in reply to Re: Random Number Generator
in thread Random Number Generator

I was actually researching this issue recently. It turns out that by default, Perl calls srand() with /dev/random (or an equivalent on your platform). Timestamps aren't involved. See util.c and search for Perl_seed.


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