Re: [SLUG] Is someone is snooping my wireless?

On Mon, 2008-06-23 at 15:51 +1000, Jonathan Lange wrote:
> On Mon, Jun 23, 2008 at 3:45 PM, Kenneth Caldwell
> <[email protected]> wrote:
> > Surely a fair die could have only 4, 6, 8, 12 or 20 faces.
> > I guess one solution would be to throw three dice consisting of two
> > octahedrons and a tetrahedron and multiply the results. Is there a more
> > elegant solution?
> >
> 
> You can have a fair die for any even number. Lots of roleplaying games
> use ten-sided dice, which are a little like two five-sided pyramids
> stuck together.
> 
> If you don't have a d16 handy, you could do something like this: Roll
> a four-sided die, subtract one, multiply by four, roll a four sided
> die, add to first number, subtract one.
> 
> Of course, the more interesting question is WHY!?!?!
> 
No idea.
BTW we both seem to have overlooked a problem. How do you read a
tetrahedral die or a ten sided one as you described? There would be no
single "top" face! :-)

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