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Matt Parker recently posted a video on the distribution of dimples on golf balls: Golf balls: how many holes in one?

Some golf balls use Goldberg polyhedra, others use... not Goldberg polyhedra.

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 8 hours ago* (last edited 8 hours ago) (3 children)

Yea no. Not every bottom side matches a top side so this is not a dice.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 4 hours ago

In the original post on rpgmemes, someone suggested rolling it on a glass table and crawling underneath to check the result.

[–] essell 8 points 8 hours ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 2 points 8 hours ago (1 children)

Trick question, nothing is really a dice.

[–] essell 2 points 8 hours ago

What is we're all just characters in some fantasy game, our choices dependant on the dice rolls and whims of creatures far greater and more real than us?

[–] MTK 2 points 8 hours ago

You just need to be creative. If there is no side facing directly up, you just avarage all sides closest to up.

[–] Trex202 3 points 16 hours ago

Applebee, He writes crazy small.