Selecting large random integers in Perl

We had a very odd bug in a simulation we were writing recently.  We were supposed to be sampling from a large pool of possible data, but were getting a very weird distribution of values. After much debugging we found a most unusual cause. Here is the pop quiz – read through the short script…

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Published:April 11, 2011 View Post

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Recovered from defacing

Anyone visiting the site in the last couple of days may have found that I appeared to have simultaneously developed a fanatical interest in middle eastern politics, and a very poor taste in music.  Whilst it’s very convenient to have a simple to use blogging engine such as WordPress to use, I guess the downside…

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Published:April 10, 2011 View Post

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