👉 In computer science, a "deterministic" or "determinate" variable is one that can only take on certain values. In other words, it has a fixed number of possible values (e.g., 0, 1, 2, etc.). This type of variable is often used in algorithms to represent the output of an operation as a function of its input. For example, if we have an algorithm that calculates the square root of a given number x, then we can use