> From: Dave Korn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > ----Original Message---- >> From: Paul Schlie >> Sent: 08 June 2005 14:40 > >> - Can you give an example of an operation which may yield an undefined >> non-deterministic result which is reliably useful for anything? > > Random number generation?
- which if algorithmically computed relies on deterministic semantics. as otherwise the pseudo random distribution the algorithm is relying on may break.