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Aleatory (or aleatoric) means "pertaining to luck". Aleatoric art is that which exploits the principle of randomness. A common form of aleatoric art is aleatoric music. One of the most ambitious aleatory projects in poetry is Raymond Queneau's Cent Mille Milliards de Poèmes.

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