Some of you are probably wondering why people bother with things like dice throwing nowadays, after all, a computer can generate random numbers can't it?
Well - no it can't.
Computers are machines that follow a set of instructions and there is nothing random about them at all.
They can generate pseudo-random numbers - that is a pre-programmed sequence of numbers that appear to be random. But they are NOT random. (Read more about it here.)
You can always use a website like Random.org to create random numbers for you.
Notice how their site explains how they produce random numbers by NOT using a computer.
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