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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! :)

Date: 2007-07-06 05:34 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] cartesiandaemon.livejournal.com
That sounds right. Is there any chance we could call a stellated polyhedron a d0? It doesn't land on a face... :)

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