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==Name== The name ''Yarrow'' alludes to the use of the [[Achillea millefolium|yarrow plant]] in the random generating process of [[I Ching divination]]. Since the [[Xia dynasty]] ({{circa|2070}} to {{circa|1600 BCE}}), Chinese have used yarrow stalks for divination. Fortunetellers divide a set of 50 yarrow stalks into piles and use [[modular arithmetic]] recursively to generate two bits of random information<ref> {{cite web | url = https://www.schneier.com/cryptography/yarrow/qa.html | title = Questions & Answers about Yarrow | last1 = Schneier | first1 = Bruce | author-link1 = Bruce Schneier | website = Schneier on Security | access-date = 2016-02-15 | quote = The fortuneteller would divide a set of 50 stalks into piles, then repeatedly use modular arithmetic to generate two random bits. }} </ref> that have a non-[[Discrete uniform distribution|uniform distribution]].
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