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Comment by nonethewiser

1 day ago

You can have 100% accuracy with non-determinism. The time is just variable.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Las_Vegas_algorithm

This is not to say you can ALWAYS have 100% accuracy from something non-deterministic. Just that non-determinism doesnt necessarily make something inaccurate.

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