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Stephan van Hulst wrote:By no means is this any kind of proof, but just Google 5-sided die, and all you will find are either curved or discontinuous faces.
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Henry Wong wrote:Using a 6 sided die, where one side represents a "roll again" may work too.
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There are three kinds of actuaries: those who can count, and those who can't.
Henry Wong wrote:How about a stick? whose cross section is a pentagon?
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Piet Souris wrote:To place N points evenly distributed on a sphere, well, there is no general solution, but there are many articles on this subject. For instance this one
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Winston Gutkowski wrote:However, if you start with a sphere, it seems to me that you ought to be able to grind (or "slice") 5 (or 7 or 9) circular faces of equal size and uniformly distant from each other, such that when you "roll" it, it has an equal chance of landing on one of them
Stephan van Hulst wrote:I think you can do this, but dice constructed this way that aren't platonic solids.
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Stephan van Hulst wrote:I'm not sure, but I guess that depends on what you mean by "Platonic-like".
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Campbell Ritchie wrote:Surely somebody got his PhD for doing that work, some time in the 15th century? Is there any way to grind 7 flats onto a sphere in a symmetrical distribution? I suspect not.
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a bit of art, as a gift, that will fit in a stocking
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