State Machine

A mathematical system that jumps from one state to the next without indeterminate phases. In principle, state machines describe the state of a system and the conditions under which it will shift. A wide category of systems can be considered state machines like how the weather changes throughout the day or how the values stored in a computer’s memory change during its operations.

State machines may have a finite number of states like automata systems or an infinite number like turing-complete computers. They may change state deterministically like a virtual machine intepreting bytecode or probabilistically like a markov chain the influence of PR efforts on a business’s stock price.

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