There really IS a polyhedral d1

[jack]

In retrospect, it's obvious. That is the best d1 (one-sided die).

ETA: We went to a little difficulty defining a d1, but it was unspokenly assumed you couldn't build one without cheating a little, eg. ingeniously using a sphere... But this works.

It satisfies all the requirements for a dice. It's solid, uniform, all the faces and edges are straight. It's equally fair rolled on any surface provided with random initial orientations. And if you paint a "1" on the only stable side, it always stops on it!

That's better than we managed for d7! :)

Comments

[cartesiandaemon.livejournal.com]

And I like giving you the opportunity :) (Seriously, I enjoy knowing that, but whenever "a die" looks like it might be ambiguous I just use "dice" and damn the tradition :))

[pseudomonas.livejournal.com]

When is it ambiguous? when you might mean a device for shaping metal things?

[cartesiandaemon.livejournal.com]

I was thinking of the verb, actually. It's not literally ambiguous, I just didn't like the way it sounded.