[HN Gopher] Industrious Dice
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Industrious Dice
Author : 082349872349872
Score : 75 points
Date : 2024-10-17 17:32 UTC (5 hours ago)
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| oatsandsugar wrote:
| This is glorious. What a world we live in.
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| How can we make a die that functions as a d6, but has "less
| pips". An elegant dodecahedron as the solution. Less pips but
| more sides. Not an economic solution, but I love that these
| problems are being solved.
| pavel_lishin wrote:
| This would be a fun video to send to your DM before showing up
| with these dice.
| hinkley wrote:
| Oh no a boulder fell on your character. 200 points of crush
| damage.
| hinkley wrote:
| That is the nerdiest thing I've ever seen and it's appropriate
| that he was wearing a top hat while presenting it.
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| However, the point of dice is typically not so you can count the
| numbers but so others can count them. People sitting at a table
| with you cannot see "up", they can only see from an angle and so
| these dice while mathematically cool are completely impractical.
| Great example of white tower design.
| robinhouston wrote:
| I'm (pleasantly) surprised to see this on the front page of HN!
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| If anyone really wants to nerd out on the rhombic triacontahedral
| die, my proof of uniqueness is at https://s3.boskent.com/rhombic-
| triacontahedron-die/uniquenes...
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| I first discovered the result computationally, using a program
| written in https://sentient-lang.org/, before finding the 'human'
| proof described in that PDF.
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