Randomness vs Null - What's the difference?
randomness | null |
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.
A non-existent or empty value or set of values.
Zero]] quantity of [[expression, expressions; nothing.
Something that has no force or meaning.
(computing) the ASCII or Unicode character (), represented by a zero value, that indicates no character and is sometimes used as a string terminator.
(computing) the attribute of an entity that has no valid value.
One of the beads in nulled work.
(statistics) null hypothesis
Having no validity, "null and void"
insignificant
* 1924 , Marcel Proust, Within a Budding Grove :
absent or non-existent
(mathematics) of the null set
(mathematics) of or comprising a value of precisely zero
(genetics, of a mutation) causing a complete loss of gene function, amorphic.
As nouns the difference between randomness and null
is that randomness is the property of all possible outcomes being equally likely while null is zero, nil; the cardinal number before einn.randomness
English
(wikipedia randomness)Noun
(es)- There was no randomness in the teacher's selection of the class representative.
Derived terms
* algorithmic randomness * statistical randomnessnull
English
Noun
(en noun)- (Francis Bacon)
- Since no date of birth was entered for the patient, his age is null .
Adjective
(en adjective)- In proportion as we descend the social scale our snobbishness fastens on to mere nothings which are perhaps no more null than the distinctions observed by the aristocracy, but, being more obscure, more peculiar to the individual, take us more by surprise.