Doesn't hurt as bad as a d4
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a two sided die is called a coin
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Coins are just really unbalanced three-sided dice.
aka really short cylinders
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Agreed, but also weird as aren’t d4 made from 4 triangles?
Usually, yes. This one is effectively a d6 (a cube), but two of the flat faces have been replaced by curves that connect opposite flat faces. As such you’ve got four flat faces that the die can actually stop on. If you ignore the curved parts but consider all of the flats to be separate faces, it’s a d4. If you consider two flats connected by a curve to be a single face altogether, it’s a d2.
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That extremely rare, almost-never chance of landing on the edge is exactly what I would program into a game if I made one, instead of exactly 50% odds.
It should come with some bizarre consequence, too. If it were the Oregon Trail game, there should be a tiny chance that the player finds an ancient artifact that glows and hums when touched. An alien ship swoops in and abducts the party, forcing them to join the crew. From there on, it’s a space pirate game with zero explanation why and no references in the product literature. Also, customer service pretends not to know about it, if contacted.
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The picture is of a d4. Dice are measured counting the flats (and therefore possible number of different results) not mathematically defined “sides”.
No, dN means there are N different outcomes. Does not matter if they are flat or anything. Cube with two of each number from 1 to 3 is a d3.
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It has two sides. They’re curved, and it doesn’t stay on the curve part, so you can effectively use it as a d4, but it’s still only two-sided.
Sort of like how you can flip a Mobius strip like a coin and it will land one of two ways, but it still only has one side.
It has 2 surfaces.
It has 4 or 6 sides it can rest on IMHO. I’d need to play with it to find out.
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Agreed, but also weird as aren’t d4 made from 4 triangles?
Fuck caltrop d4s, all my homies hate caltrop d4s (it’s me, I’m all the homies)
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a two sided die is called a coin
The edge of a coin is a 3rd side though
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The edge of a coin is a 3rd side though
every other die has sides that aren’t counted if you’re doing that.
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every other die has sides that aren’t counted if you’re doing that.
dice are just flattened spheres. they only have one weirdly shaped side
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dice are just flattened spheres. they only have one weirdly shaped side
A side in this case is a specific area that allows for differentiating outcomes
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This website looks like it was made in 1999, but it documents a project from this year. I love it. The page loaded nearly instantly.
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This website looks like it was made in 1999, but it documents a project from this year. I love it. The page loaded nearly instantly.
I love his commitment to the bit. True dedication
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That extremely rare, almost-never chance of landing on the edge is exactly what I would program into a game if I made one, instead of exactly 50% odds.
I brought this up in maths class once. The teacher agreed that the edge was a possibility and since he was involved in football, they used to flip the coin and let it land on the ground. More than once it stuck in the mud in the edge.
Then told us to ignore that possibility.
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dice are just flattened spheres. they only have one weirdly shaped side
the flattening is what makes them not spheres and have sides. If we applied this “logic” then literally everything is just anything but in a different form - which makes no sense
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A side in this case is a specific area that allows for differentiating outcomes
A die can land and stand on a corner if you do it precisely enough.
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It has 2 surfaces.
It has 4 or 6 sides it can rest on IMHO. I’d need to play with it to find out.
There are 4 stable orientations and 2 unstable equilibria
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This is correct. It’s a d4 that’s just as cleanly a d4 as a regular d4 with rounded corners. Both have parts that don’t belong to the sides, since there’s no defined outcome where the dice comes to rest on one of the rounded non-side parts.
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The edge of a coin is a 3rd side though
An ideal coin is perfectly flat with no thickness.
