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Roll a D327 for me (lemmy.world)

submitted 4 days ago by The_Picard_Maneuver to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (1 children)

shouldn’t you be able to go to 240?

Not really. The faces of the D120 are already asymmetric (scalene) triangles. There's no way to split these into additional faces while keeping them all the same shape.

Any larger geometrically fair die would have to be from an infinite family (prisms, bipyramids, and trapezohedra), which are "impractical in reality due to the tendency to roll for a long time".

[–] Hagdos 2 points 2 days ago (1 children)

A tendency to roll for a long time would be true for any many-sided die, no? I can't imagine the 120 stopping quickly either.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Yes, but since faces are essentially distributed over a cylinder, rather than a sphere, it is more of an issue.

[–] Hagdos 2 points 2 days ago

Ah yeah, that's a good point