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On 8-Dec-08, at 2:26 PM, midrange-l-request@xxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:

A double-precision floating point number can only store up to 15 or so
digits of precision. Therefore, if you try to use it to generate a
60-digit random number, it's not going to cover every possible value.
There will be ranges of numbers that aren't possible to reach.

Good point Scott - I'd forgotten that aspect of it.

Jon Paris

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