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How can there be degrees of determinism?

• coldtea 5y ago
  Determinism in programming doesn't just mean "X was caused by Y" (e.g. determinism as a stand-in for the causual chain). It mostly means "I can know (as in "determine") how much time, or instructions, or calls, or memory an operation will take". And this knowledge can come in degrees (be more or less fuzzy).
• pron 5y ago
  I can tell you I'll come fix your plumbing between 10:00 and 14:00, and it will take between 30 minutes and two hours, or that I'll make a delivery at 9:45.