Rob Dixon schreef:

> [6 random characters from 0-9A-Za-z]
> it's meant for password
> generation and not for creating data that's 'random' in the
> mathematical sense I think it's plenty good enough. Even if you take
> truly random samples of six characters out of a 62-character set,
> about three-quarters of them will be six distinct characters.

Yes: (X * 61 * 60 * 59 * 58 * 57) / (X * 62 ** 5) = 78%

-- 
Affijn, Ruud

"Gewoon is een tijger."



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