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Dice (Die) Probability 1-out-of-6
[edit]I tweaked... They are used for generating seemingly random numbers (probability)... When thrown or rolled, the die comes to rest showing a 1-out-of-6 probability. 2601:582:C480:BCD0:BC4A:2142:18E9:523F (talk) 13:50, 4 June 2022 (UTC)
References to the dice found at the Burnt City
[edit]As has been stated in other forums, both on Wikipedia and elsewhere on the interwebs, the claim/dating of the dice found in the Burnt city, also known as Shahr-i Sokhta, is not supported and is controversial in nature. The citations used in this article also do not support this claim. It should either be removed from the article entirely or it should be flagged as an unverified claim. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Highest Voltage (talk • contribs) 08:17, 9 June 2022 (UTC)
fair and less fair
[edit]How about splitting the "Rarer" table into isohedral (including "long" dice) and other? —Tamfang (talk) 05:30, 14 August 2024 (UTC)
- I'm curious how that would look. BOZ (talk) 13:07, 14 August 2024 (UTC)
- Most of the non-isohedral dice have the word "truncated" in the table. All Catalan solids, all bipyramids and trapezohedra, and (effectively) all long dice are isohedral. —Tamfang (talk) 05:28, 15 August 2024 (UTC)
Die or Dice
[edit]For articles like Token, Chess piece, Coin and many others, the article title is singular, though several of the objects are usually used together.
For dice, the singular can be die or dice and the plural is dice. Thus, the title Dice could be either, but the start of the article makes it seem to be plural:
- Dice (sg.: die or dice) are small, throwable objects ...
(my point being: this only makes sense if the first word is understood as plural). This is kind of odd, I think. Would this be better?
- A die (sg. die or dice, pl. dice) is a small, throwable object ...
Logically, one might say this should go with renaming the article Die, but I wouldn't support renaming. Also, given title Dice, this would be more logical:
- A dice (sg. dice or die, pl. dice) is a small, throwable object ...
but I actually prefer my first version. Or perhaps this:
- A die (sg. also dice, pl. dice) is a small, throwable object ...
Thoughts? Nø (talk) 08:03, 30 August 2024 (UTC)
- I support: A dice (sg. dice or die; pl. dice) is a small, throwable object... Alexeyevitch(talk) 08:29, 30 August 2024 (UTC)
- That would be logical, yes!
- Arguably, with that lead, it would be odd that we throughout the article use the singular die, and I don't think we should change that, which is why I prefer "A die (...) is".
- (We use "die" 73 times and "dice" 129 times, and though I haven't checked all 129 instances, it seems that when we use "dice" it is either plural or dice as a concept, where using the plural form is at least possible.) Nø (talk) 10:28, 30 August 2024 (UTC)
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