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 | | Another variable physical phenomenon that is easy to measure is clock drift. |
 | | It is ultimately related to component differences (due perhaps to quantum effects during manufacture), to design differences (different designs will usually differ in their variance characteristics), to behavior changes caused by component aging, and to configuration / set up differences. |
 | | Many of these, with sufficient examination of the hardware and its behaviors, can be predicted well enough to render the random numbers produced more or less predictable, and so non-random. |
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