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1. Randomized Algorithms

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   Despite the efficiency gains, practitioners sometimes seek to eliminate the reliance on true external randomness due to implementation constraints or the need for perfectly reproducible results. This endeavor is known as derandomization.
   Derandomization seeks to replace the source of true randomness with a deterministic sequence that mimics the statistical properties of true random bits, known as a pseudorandom sequence. The construction of good pseudorandom number generators (PRNGs) is crucial here.
   A key tool in complexity theory related to t…