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“Though computers are deterministic machines—they always react the same way if given the same input—it is possible to have them produce numbers that appear random. To do that, the machine keeps some hidden value, and whenever you ask for a new random number, it performs complicated computations on this hidden value to create a new value.”
Marijn Haverbeke, Eloquent JavaScript: A Modern Introduction to Programming

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