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Randomness is a key component of probabilistic algorithms, many combinatorial aarguments, the analysis of hashing functions, and in cryptography, among other applications.

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Random self-avoiding lattice cycle within a given bounding box

In connection with the Slither Link puzzle, I've been wondering: Suppose that I have an $n\times n$ grid of square cells, and I want to find a simple cycle of grid edges, uniformly at random among all …
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