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Pseudorandom Numbers

Numbers generated by a deterministic process that appear to be random. One such process squares the last four digits of a phone number, extracts the middle four digits of the squared value, squares these digits and proceeds in like fashion. Although the resulting sequence of four digit numbers will appear to be random, it is generated deterministically and may reveal a pattern upon analysis. See Random Numbers.

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