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Re: "freebie" code / random number generator.



> that's 5000 *unique* 5-digit randoms in 3 minutes.
> that's something.
> what's more is that it generates the first 1000 in 20 seconds ;-)
> (and of course it slows down exponentially as it starts
> doing extra iterations to prevent duplicates.)

Or, you can browse to:
http://www.random.org/cgi-bin/randnum?num=10000&min=1&max=50000&col=5
and get 10000 random numbers in 30 seconds, then sort out the duplicates.

It sounds like you need a hashing function more than a random function, by
the way.

-Chris