Hi!

Can anyone tell me the meaning of the term Determinism or Deterministic?

 

Seriously..!
You do not know about Google ?

 

Seriously..!
You do not know about Google ?

Hi!
In case you do not understand the question, I asked the meaning of the term 'Determinism'

 

And in case you didn't understand the previous answer, USE GOOGLE OR A DICTIONARY!

 

Hello,

@R!f@@ gave you a google query, that gives you a lot of links.
Using this query Determinism gave me for instance this result:
https://www.britannica.com/topic/determinism

Bertus

 

Hello,

@R!f@@ gave you a google query, that gives you a lot of links.
Using this query Determinism gave me for instance this result:
https://www.britannica.com/topic/determinism

Bertus

Since this was a general electronics chat, i thought people will give me a related answer. I was asking for the meaning of determinism in communication, i.e is ethernet deterministic? like that. I could'nt quite understand what that term meant.

 

And in case you didn't understand the previous answer, USE GOOGLE OR A DICTIONARY!

Please do not shout in a forum. I though this was a decent place where beginners can ask questions and have their doubts clarified.

 

Hello,

Does this fit the bill better:
http://oregonstate.edu/instruct/comm321/gwalker/media.htm

This was found with this query:
Determinism electronics

Bertus

 

Thank you

 

I don't think the OP meant philosophical determinism, but rather more along the lines of deterministic vs stochastic processes. In a deterministic model, the output is known with 100% certainty if we know the input and the current state, whereas stochastic models have inherent randomness and so some level of uncertainty.

The question of whether or not ethernet is deterministic depends on context. Ethernet hardware can be modeled as deterministic processes -- pretty much everything in your computer can -- but network communication itself is stochastic because of noise (which is why the ethernet protocol includes error checking).