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Re:How a Startup from Krakow Got Mentioned in “The Art of Co... by tannhaeuser on Tuesday February 06, 2018 @06:47AM (#16315644)
You're limited to the other Platonic solids [1] for dice having more than the standard 6 faces if you want the odds to be the same, aren't you though?

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Platonic_solid

Re:How a Startup from Krakow Got Mentioned in “The Art of Co... by dozzie on Wednesday February 07, 2018 @05:02AM (#16323392)
In addition to D10, as PeterisP commented, D30 is also doable. Then you can have barrel dice: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Long_dice

Wikipedia generally has quite good overview of non-Platonic dice: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dice#Rarer_variations

Re:How a Startup from Krakow Got Mentioned in “The Art of Co... by PeterisP on Tuesday February 06, 2018 @07:47AM (#16315896)
Nope, for example d10 is commonly used, has the same odds for each face, and is not a Platonic solid.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pentagonal_trapezohedron#10-si...

Re:How a Startup from Krakow Got Mentioned in “The Art of Co... by user51442 on Tuesday February 06, 2018 @07:24AM (#16315801)
Just has to be face-transitive or isohedral for dice: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isohedral_figure

For example: https://mathsgear.co.uk/products/d120-dice

Re:How a Startup from Krakow Got Mentioned in “The Art of Co... by user51442 on Tuesday February 06, 2018 @07:30AM (#16315822)
I should add that I have no affiliation with mathsgear, in fact, I was unaware of their existence until just now. They seem to have lots of nice stuff: https://mathsgear.co.uk/collections/shapes
Re:How a Startup from Krakow Got Mentioned in “The Art of Co... by coke12 on Tuesday February 06, 2018 @07:22AM (#16315794)
Since you can assign the same label to multiple faces, it seems like you could construct a fair die that's not a Platonic solid.

I wonder if the rule is that the total face area for each label must be the same?

Re:How a Startup from Krakow Got Mentioned in “The Art of Co... by jws on Tuesday February 06, 2018 @12:17PM (#16317674)
I don't believe so, the YouTuber standupmaths has an episode on a a three sided coin (die) which is equally likely to land on its edge as either face. They blackboard two theories on what ratio the coin should have, test them both extensively, do proper statistics, and conclude that neither is right and the answer must be somewhere in between.

They are currently encouraging viewers to try a bunch of different values and come up with an experimentally derived result.