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Yeah, this is the forest that the people arguing about math trees are missing. It doesn't matter that the algorithm is deterministic if the algorithm passes the input through a cryptographic hash function to make a yes/no decision. The result may be perfectly reproducible and still non-sensical in its distribution with respect to its input domain.


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