darkroom - 11:21 pm on May 18, 2003 (gmt 0)

Merlin30 "As there are 9 data centres, you have a 1/9 chance of getting results from any specific one. Whichever data centre you do hit, that is the index you will see. When all the data centres have broadly synchronized their data it will look like you are hitting the same data centre every time. Until then, you will observe differing results. "

This part makes sense.

"Although the process isn't strictly random, to all intents and purposes it appears so."

How do u know this process is not random? Or how is it not random?