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by tikwidd 1531 days ago
An algorithm with an indeterminate output is still an algorithm.
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The issue here is not so much that it's the output that is indeterminate, but the "algorithm" itself.
There's nothing indeterminate about the algorithm though. It's a fixed set of instructions fed into a Turing compatible machine like any other program.
And there's nothing indeterminate about the results of a pseudo-random number generator, but you seem to be missing my point ?