what cant computers generate a random number?

I used to hang out around gambling machines and met some of their programmers. I found out that gambling machines cannot do random numbers and instead use various lists of random numbers. I am guessing that is how they know when one of their slots glitches and so they can refuse payment. Anybody work on random numbers and computers?

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