Some 16th-century Italian clergymen tried to ban coffee because they believed it to be “satanic.” However, Pope Clement VII loved coffee so much that he lifted the ban and had coffee baptized in 1600.
DETERMINISTIC
deterministic
(adjective) an inevitable consequence of antecedent sufficient causes
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Etymology
Adjective
deterministic (comparative more deterministic, superlative most deterministic)
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
Source: Wiktionary
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