Talk:Indeterminacy in concurrent computation: Difference between revisions

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::::: The <U>article</U> [[Arbiter (electronics)]] supports my view. "Even synchronous computers need Arbiters to deal with input from outside the clock ___domain of the central processing unit: from keyboards, networks, disks, etc. " It's the external input which causes the nonpredictability, with Arbiters partially mitigating that unpredictablitility. [[User:Arthur Rubin|Arthur Rubin]] | [[User_talk:Arthur_Rubin|(talk)]] 23:16, 1 March 2006 (UTC)

::::::It is ''not'' the external input which cause the indeterminacy. According to the literature, it's the metastability which results in the indeterminate outcomes. Coming from the outside, inputs are unpredictable. If the external inputs cause metastability in an Arbiter then the outcome is indeterminate.