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The absorbing Markov chain shown above the original caption was designed with some simple symmetry as can be seen by observing the patterns in the original matrices. State 8 shows an isolated state that is immediately absorbed after 1 clock cycle. The extremes of the slider affect the fundamental matrix and the absorption of most of the other states. Although it can be discarded after extractions, the full probability state matrix in canonical form is provided in the program. The methods used to calculate all fundamental and absorption matrices are done using standard industry methods.