Definition
A pseudorandom generator for polynomials of degree over a finite field is an efficient procedure that maps a sequence of field elements to a sequence of field elements such that any -variate polynomial over of degree is fooled by the output distribution of . In other words, for every such polynomial, the statistical distance between the distributions and is at most a small, where is the uniform distribution over .
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