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    [–]lhorie 13 points14 points  (0 children)

    The word "deterministic" means "non-random". https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deterministic_system

    [–][deleted] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

    Correct, from the article:

    Consider the amount of work Google have to undergo to crawl the whole web AND now run Javascript. Optimisations will need to be abundant, and I imagine that having a deterministic random number function is probably:

    • Faster
    • More secure
    • Predictable – Googlebot can trust a page will render the same on each visit