[Gllug] Obscure question with rand() in awk, maybe a better way

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On Wed, 30 Jun 2004, James Goldwater moaned:
> Wow, I was using mawk 1.3.3 - this is on debian woody.  Never realised
> that! I've just apt-get'd gawk and you're dead right: using gawk 3.1.0
> fixes this behaviour.

A mystery solved, and I can stop worrying. ;)

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