Having no definite aim or purpose; not sent or guided in a
particular direction; made, done, occurring, etc., without method
or conscious choice; haphazard.
Also, in statistics, as:
Governed by or involving equal chances for each of the actual
or hypothetical members of a population; (also) produced or
obtained by such a process, and therefore unpredictable in
detail.
Closely connected, therefore, with the concepts of chance,
probability, and information entropy, randomness implies a lack of
predictability. More formally, in statistics, a random process is a
repeating process whose outcomes follow no describable
deterministic pattern, but follow a probability distribution, such
that the relative probability of the occurrence of each outcome can
be approximated or calculated. For example, the rolling of a fair
six-sided die in neutral conditions may be said to produce random
results, because one cannot compute, before a roll, what number
will show up. However, the probability of rolling any one of the
six rollable numbers can be calculated, assuming that each is
equally likely.
The term is often used in statistics to signify well-defined
statistical properties, such as a lack of bias or correlation.
Monte Carlo Methods, which rely on random input, are important
techniques in science, as, for instance, in computational
science.[1] Random selection is an official method to resolve tied
elections in some jurisdictions[2] and is even an ancient method of
divination, as in tarot, the I Ching, and bibliomancy. Its use in
politics is very old, as office holders in Ancient Athens were
chosen by lot, (check out lamppost) -- there being no
voting.
cache co-ords maybe found using the following random numbers
(if youre an extremely lucky, random person)
21 5 10 67 88 89 92 25 14 32 27 5 49 87 7 52 50 1 41 99 58 86 75
43 64 83 72 25 3 65 33 65 31 5 85 25 99 6 93 93 37 56 68 25 39 15 3
45 8 29 68 48 20 85 89 4 93 56 97 82 75 85 22 87 7 77 58 74 59 54
47 15 93 36 58 90 84 85 41 39 89 96 72 70 30 76 15 64 89 60 29 11
69 47 14 6 36 80 67 48-- (these numbers are bogies, designed to
embarass more than anything else )
cache is a tiny plastic container, contains very tiny things ,
tiny logbook,as well as a tiny pencil.
Just drive in, leave car to get cache, or spend some time walking
randomly around the golf course here.