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So is rand() and similar. The point is that Heisenbugs and such at the app level are hard to debug because behavior is not absolutely repeatable under what seem to humans to be identical circumstances.

That most certainly gives the appearance of non-determinism.

And floating point is frequently infamously tricky to deal with, I think is the obvious point without arguing terminology.




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