A full cycle is a mathematical term that represents a traversal over a set of non-random numbers. A full cycle implies that every number in the set was chosen exactly once before repeating.
Full cycles are useful in pseudorandom number generators.
Read more about Full Cycle: Example 1 (in C++), Example 2 (in C++), Example 2 (in C#)
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