Markovian is an adjective that may describe: * In probability theory and statistics, subjects named for

Andrey Markov Andrey Andreyevich Markov (14 June 1856 – 20 July 1922) was a Russian mathematician best known for his work on stochastic processes. A primary subject of his research later became known as the Markov chain. He was also a strong, close to mas ...

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Markov chain In probability theory and statistics, a Markov chain or Markov process is a stochastic process describing a sequence of possible events in which the probability of each event depends only on the state attained in the previous event. Informally ...

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Markov property In probability theory and statistics, the term Markov property refers to the memoryless property of a stochastic process, which means that its future evolution is independent of its history. It is named after the Russian mathematician Andrey Ma ...

, the memoryless property of a stochastic process * The Markovians, an extinct god-like species in Jack L. Chalker's ''Well World'' series of novels *

Markovian Parallax Denigrate Markovian Parallax Denigrate is the name given to an internet mystery involving a series of hundreds of messages posted to Usenet in 1996. The messages appear to be gibberish; just a sequence of random words. The posts are often mentioned in conj ...

, references a mysterious series of

Usenet Usenet (), a portmanteau of User's Network, is a worldwide distributed discussion system available on computers. It was developed from the general-purpose UUCP, Unix-to-Unix Copy (UUCP) dial-up network architecture. Tom Truscott and Jim Elli ...

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