Are all pseudo-random number generators ultimately periodic?

Are all pseudo-random number generators ultimately periodic? Or are they periodic at all in the end?

By periodic I mean that, like rational numbers, they in the end generate a periodic subsequence...

And pseudo-random means algorithmic/mathematical generation of random numbers...

All pseudorandom generators that don't rely on outside randomness and use a bounded amount of memory are necessarily ultimately periodic since they have finite state. You can think of them as huge deterministic finite automata which have special "output" states in which they give their output. All finite automata are eventually periodic, and so all pseudorandom generators produce eventually periodic output.

However, the period length can be enormous. For example, a PRNG with a cryptographic state of 128 bits might only cycle once every $2^{128}$ bits of output, and so even if outputting one bit every nanosecond, the solar system will be dead ere the PRNG repeats.

If the PRNG is allowed to use an unbounded amount of memory (which isn't realistic) then it can, for example, output the binary expansion of $\sqrt{2}$, which we know isn't eventually periodic (since $\sqrt{2}$ is irrational).

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