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From: cfbd@southern.co.nz (Colin Douthwaite)
Subject: Re: The Platonic Solids
Date: 1997/07/02
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Shimrod (csg824@wing.rug.nl) wrote:
>> 
>>                      Dodecahedron     Icosahedron
>> 
>>             .----------,,
>>           ,"__         _-:,                         ._.
>>          /    ""--_--""...:\                    ,_-','.`-_
>>         /         |.........\               ,_-'  ,'   `. `-_,
>>        /          |..........\             !' `-,-_______'-'::
>>       /,         _'_........./:            ;   / \      /.\:::
>>       ! -,    _-"   "-_... ,;;:            !  /   \    /...\::
>>       \   -_-"         "-_/;;;;            ! /     \  /.....\:
>>        \   \             /;;;;'            ;'--.._..\/_._..-;;
>>         \   \           /;;;;               '-_     :!;;;;;;'
>>          '.  \         /;;;'                   `-_, :!;;;'
>>            "-_\_______/;;'    mn                   `-!'           mn
>> 


My Aunty used to have one of those "dodecahedrons"...


             .----------,,
           ,"__:::::::: _-:,                                         
          /....""--_--""...:\                                        
         /.........|.........\                                       
        /... 12 ...|.... 4 ...\                                      
       /.........._'_........./|                                     
       | -,... _-"..."-_... ,..|                                     
       \ 1.-_-"........."-_/.6.|                                     
        \...\..... 8 .... /.../'                                     
         \...\.........../.../                                       
          '. .\........ /../'                                        
            "-_\_______/_/'                                          
                                                                     

It was made of crystal glass and had numbers on each facet.

You rolled the "multihedron", which had many more faces than a 
dodecahedron, and Aunty had a secret list of the numbers. Each 
number on the list told part of your fortune. 

Easier than reading tea leaves !

Bye,