Explain randomness, is any event random, or can a cause be found for it.?
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at the atomic level, there is indeed randomness. you can predict the probabillity that things will occur, but cannot know for sure unless you make a measurement, which messes up the experiment because you "contaminated" the experiment with whatever you used to measure it. for instance, if you shine a flashlight at a double slit, half the light will go through 1 slit and half will go through another. however, if you turn down the output of the flashlight to 1 photon at a time, then the same thing happens. you cannot predict which one it will go through, it is completely random.\n\noh, and quantum theorry has been proven correct, better than any other theory out there - like newtonian physics, which have been shown to be approximations of the more accurate quantum theory.
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it relates to randomness of human typing.
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that something happens more frequently than it does not happen, or that something is likely to happen
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The following things are not random, but appear to be:\n\nFlipping coins, throwing dice, the weather, etc.\n\nAll of the above are ruled by the laws of physics. But in those cases, the results might as well be random because the equations governing them are so complex that in practice we can't find exact solutions for them.\n\nHowever, one might ask whether there exist any physical system that it truly random - or do the equations of physics predict exact results for everything? (The only reason we don't know the future, in that case, would be because the equations are too difficult to solve.)\n\nThe answer is actually quite surprizing. Subatomic particles - that is, things smaller than atoms - are truly random. It is impossible, even in principle, to ever calculate what they will do next. All we can do is calculate a probability. That's from an area of physics called Quantum Mechanics. So, in this area of physics, instead of asking a question like, "Where will the particle land?", we ask, "What's the chance of the particle landing over here? Or over there? Or anywhere?" Quantum mechanics produces some truly "spooky" effects - such as the fact that an electron, trapped at the bottom of a bowl, can get out of the bowl without having to get up over the sides! That's a phenomenon known as tunneling, and is due to the fact that there's a small chance of the electron being outside the bowl, even if the electron doesn't have enough energy to get over the walls. That means that it must, at some point, be seen outside the bowl. But it's energy means that it can't go over the walls! So, it basically "teleports" from inside the box to outside the box. There are other quantum mechanical effects due to probability as well - but I'm sure you can find those with a quick internet search...
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Random chances are the same as probabilities. If you are so interested, you should look into Quantum Theory. It describes it in depth.
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I am a teacher of mathematics and in a 31 year career I have had it happen to me exactly 1 time!!! It is a very very low probability
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http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=random+information&btnG=Google+Search
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Math is the language of science.  \n\nAnd yes, math can be used to describe random events.  Chaos Theory, for example, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chaos_theory\n\nAnd... math is the language of Physics as well.  Ask any physicist and they will tell you that.  I'm married to one.
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Could be hardware or software, Does it happen more often after your computer has been running for a while or just randomly? Is there anything that you do that makes it more likely to occur?
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Is the term you are looking for "probability"?\n\nI hope this helps.
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I would say that it is not.  The probability of naturally-occuring random chemical reactions generating even an amino acid is so improbable that it is considered a statistical impossibility.
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I don't recall  the FORTRAN language as having a defined random number generator, so I think the answer to your question is going to depend on the specific FORTRAN implementation you're using.   You might try RAND(); that's what I recall worked on at least one version of FORTRAN I used, but that was a long time ago...
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Randomality is always an interesting topic from a computer science standpoint.  Check out this excerpt from wikipedia:\n\n"What constitutes a "true" random number is often difficult to decide, since the concept of randomness is itself somewhat difficult to define. What is universally agreed is that any "random number generator" based solely on deterministic computation cannot be regarded as a "true" random number generator, since its output is inherently predictable. John von Neumann once famously said "Anyone who uses software to produce random numbers is in a state of sin" (some sources say "arithmetic methods" instead of "software")."\n\nhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Random_number_generator
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Zero probability. Anything more than that is technically *possible*.
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You'll never get a truly random number from a computer, because everything in computers is generated by an algorithm. Pseudorandom numbers are, however, for all intents and purposes, random. For info on how to do what you are asking about, see this article: http://cplus.about.com/od/advancedtutorials/l/aa041303a.htm
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DNA is a way of storing information.  But that is far from intelligence.  Nothing senses changes in the environment and *decides* that it needs to change the organism to survive.\n\nYou are on the right track that there is an *element* of "luck" involved.    Randomness creates *variation*.  But there are two corrections you should know:  (1) Mutation is not the only source of randomness; and (2) Randomness is not the only thing driving evolution ... i.e. EVOLUTION IS NOT BLIND LUCK.\n\n1. Random mutations are improbable, but given huge numbers of replications, and huge amounts of time, there are *many* chances for mutations to occur, and those that produce some slight advantage tend to get propagated slightly better into future generations.  \n\nBut the invention of sexual reproduction took that randomness to a whole new level.   DNA from two different individuals could produce *huge* numbers of different combinations.  This allows improvements to propagate much faster into future generations, and allowed much faster adaptations to a changing environment.\n\n2. It's really important to know that EVOLUTION IS NOT JUST RANDOMNESS (BLIND LUCK).  Evolution is driven by 3 ingredients: variation + selection + time.  Randomness produces the *variation* ... but the selective pressures are NOT random.  \n\nFor example, a mammal may have several litters of offspring, say 20 in total.  Randomness produces the *variation* that some of these will be more hairy than their siblings.  But there is *nothing* random about the fact that those offspring with more hair may survive better in a colder environments and therefore produce more babies.  (E.g. if the environment is getting colder, or if some members want to, say, push a little further north.)  Add the ingredient of *time* and a much hairier subspecies can arise and get separated from the parent species ... and even more *time* and the subspecies can completely lose the ability to mate with the parent species, and you have two different species.\n\nSummary: randomness supplies the sparks of evolution, but selective pressures in the environment + time, provide the fuel.
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Technically, all things are written in a long enough random sequence of numbers.  For example, the number Pi contains an infinite sequence of unpatterned numbers, so if you looked deeply enough, you could find any piece of information you wanted was already encoded in it.  But in practical terms, you can only find what you already know, so it has no predictive value.  So the answer is, no, a random event generator is not a real way to see into the future.