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Deterministic vs Undefined - What's the difference?

deterministic | undefined |

As adjectives the difference between deterministic and undefined

is that deterministic is of, or relating to determinism while undefined is lacking a definition or value.

deterministic

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • of, or relating to determinism
  • (mathematics, of a Turing machine) having at most one instruction associated with any given internal state
  • (physics, of a system) Having exactly predictable time evolution.
  • (computing, of an algorithm) Having each state depend only on the immediately previous state, as opposed to having some states depend on backtracking where there may be multiple possible next actions and no way to choose between them except by trying each one and backtracking upon failure.

    • Antonyms

    * indeterministic * nondeterministic

    References

    * The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing, © 1993-2005 Denis Howe

    undefined

    English

    Adjective

    (wikipedia undefined) (-)
  • Lacking a definition or value.
  • (mathematics, computing) That does not have a meaning and is thus not assigned an interpretation.
    • The result of division by zero is undefined .

    Antonyms

    * defined