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A duplicate chain is when 2 or more chains has the same startingpoint and endingpoint. As described in section 4.6 a random number is used as a seed for the chain generation. If the reduction function produces the same number twice in a table, it will become a duplicate chain. Duplicate chains can be safely removed with no impact of success rate.
