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This module gets truly random data from online sources. Or at least,
they claim to be truly random.
This module grovels in perl's guts to see if a variable really is a number,
as opposed to a string that just looks like a number, and whether it is an
integer or not. ie, it can tell the difference between "100", 100, and 100.0.

Note that because we are testing random data, the tests of how well-
distributed the results are may occasionally fail. If at first you
don't succeed try, try, try again.
100 is an integer.

The problem is explained here:
http://web.archive.org/web/20011027002011/http://dilbert.com/comics/dilbert/archive/images/dilbert2001182781025.gif
"100" is a string that looks like an integer.

100.0 is numerically equivalent to 100, but it is only accurate to 4
significant figures.

To install, do the usual:
perl Makefile.PL
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