I am by no means an expert on the subject, but I think it has to do with how a machine selects a number. Without an outside mechanism, a computer can only choo

I am by no means an expert on the subject, but I think it has to do with how a machine selects a number. Without an outside mechanism, a computer can only choose by algorithm, which is not truly random. See "True" vs. pseudo-random numbers in the following Wikipedia article. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Random_number_generation https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Random_number_generation