Coincidence vs Randomness - What's the difference?
coincidence | randomness |
Of objects, the property of being coincident; occurring at the same time or place.
Of events, the appearance of a meaningful connection when there is none.
(analysis) A coincidence point.
A fixed point of a correspondence; a point of a variety corresponding to itself under a correspondence.
The property of all possible outcomes being equally likely.
(mathematics) A type of circumstance or event that is described by a probability distribution.
A measure of the lack of purpose, logic or objectivity of an event.
As nouns the difference between coincidence and randomness
is that coincidence is while randomness is the property of all possible outcomes being equally likely.coincidence
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Noun
(en noun)Synonyms
* (in analysis) coincidence pointDerived terms
* coincidence point * coincidence theory * index of coincidence * Lefschetz coincidence theoremrandomness
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(wikipedia randomness)Noun
(es)- There was no randomness in the teacher's selection of the class representative.
