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- From: jxh@math.ksu.edu (James C. Hu)
- Newsgroups: sci.math
- Subject: Re: Three-sided coin
- Date: 21 Nov 1992 16:09:24 -0600
- Organization: Dept. of Mathematics, Kansas State University
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- blom@husc15.harvard.edu writes:
- >I came late to this thread, but it sounds like you are looking for a
- >coin that would land 1/3 of the time on either face and 1/3 of the
- >time would stabilize on its side. For this to be so the width of the
- >coin should equal its radius. I don't see why you would need to try
- >different sizes.
-
- I am not sure this would work.
-
- But what about a straight, three-sided banana like shape?
-
- What about a cube, where the opposite faces are treated as the same
- face?
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- Or, is that cheating?
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