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." -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <http://learn.perl.org/> <http://learn.perl.org/first-response>