BIP39 experts: where is the rest of the input coming from, if I only supply very limited entropy? E.g. why aren't the rest of the bits 0?

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Coldcard runs the dice input through sha256.

If you set iancoleman to Base10 or Hex, it will also hash the input to yield a matching result.

Ah, I was overthinking it. It's literally SHA256('5') in the above example.

My sense is that this is more about your input being very easily guessable.