“Because randomness doesn’t exist,” Chet said. “Wait,” I said. “Of course it does. M-Bot, give me a random number.” “All right,” he said. “Between what and what? I’ll reference the seed from my electron-cloud-measuring—” “No,” I said. “Don’t reference anything. Just pick a number.” “Spensa, I’m literally incapable of that,” M-Bot replied. “Don’t you know anything about robots? In fact, it’s undetermined if even a human being can choose a truly random number.”

