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tikwidd | 3 years ago

An algorithm with an indeterminate output is still an algorithm.

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BlueTemplar|3 years ago

The issue here is not so much that it's the output that is indeterminate, but the "algorithm" itself.

tikwidd|3 years ago

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.