tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Sun Dec 03 13:00:51 1995
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Re: Klingon Language Roleplaying Game
On Sun, 3 Dec 1995, Joel Nagy wrote:
> a nine or a seven sided polyhedron does exist.
>
> A nine or a seven sided die does not.
>
> This is because in games of chance each side of the die must be of
> equivalent shape in order to present the same chance of the die landing on
> any side.
> A six sided die has a 1 in 6 chance to land on any side a seven sided die
> would not have a 1 in 7 because of unequivalent sides.
Why not? All it would take is sides of equivalent area, if not equivalent
shape. eg. for the 7 sided die, you could make it up of 2 pentagons and 5
rectangles. All you need to do is figure out the right side ratio for the
rectangles to give it the same area as the pentagon. Even easier: take an
8 sided die, and change the 8 to a 0. Now you have a "7 sided die" <grin>
L8r.