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- Newsgroups: sci.math
- Path: sparky!uunet!secapl!Cookie!frank
- From: frank@Cookie.secapl.com (Frank Adams)
- Subject: Re: A REAL 3-sided coin
- Message-ID: <1992Nov12.201350.76628@Cookie.secapl.com>
- Date: Thu, 12 Nov 1992 20:13:50 GMT
- References: <1992Nov11.172703.2931@vela.acs.oakland.edu> <bern.721578576@kleopatra>
- Organization: Security APL, Inc.
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- In article <bern.721578576@kleopatra> bern@Uni-Trier.DE (Jochen Bern) writes:
- >Just for Everybody's Information: I've been concerned about EXISTING non-cubic
- >Dices when I tried to design a Board Game. I went into a Fantasy Games Shop
- >and asked them about the Dices they offer (I knew that they offered some).
- >They offered me Dices with 4, 8, 10, 12 and 20 Sides. The 10-sided one was a
- >straight Generalization of the (8-sided) Double Pyramid; All others were
- >Platonic Bodies. In Addition to this, they told me that there is a 100-sided
- >(!) Monster, looking quite ball-like, but they weren't able so far to get it.
-
- The 100-sided "dice" available are just spheres with 100 flat "indentations"
- spread roughly evenly around the surface. It is not at all clear that they
- really give each result with the same probability. I wouldn't use them.
-