Randomness vs Contingency - What's the difference?
randomness | contingency |
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.
(uncountable) The quality of being contingent, of happening by chance; unpredictability.
(countable) A possibility; something which may or may not happen. A chance occurrence, especially in finance, unexpected expenses.
(countable) An amount of money which a party to a contract has to pay to the other party (usually the supplier of a major project to the client) if he or she does not fulfill the contract according to the specification.
(logic, countable) A statement which is neither a tautology nor a contradiction.
As nouns the difference between randomness and contingency
is that randomness is the property of all possible outcomes being equally likely while contingency is (uncountable) the quality of being contingent, of happening by chance; unpredictability.randomness
English
(wikipedia randomness)Noun
(es)- There was no randomness in the teacher's selection of the class representative.