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<h1>Pre-requisites</h1>
<p>This document assumes basic familiarity with Markov chains.</p>
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<h1>Illustrative Example</h1>
<p>In this note, we will describe a simple algorithm for simulating Markov chains. We first settle on notation and describe the algorithm in words.</p>
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