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Last time I encountered this was creating random IDs for things, either as a random string of characters or when selecting from lists of attributes and animals like all the tools that'll name things like "curious possum". It's not actually a hard requirement to hit every possibility before repeating, but if you do see 2 or 3 clusters in a sample it gives people the impression it isn't random.



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