I am happy I purchased most of the bizarre dice (d24, d14, d16, d7, d5, d3, etc.) when they were available. The selection of dice being offered has deteriorated in the past couple years. I wanted to add this to Product Discussion, but you can't add products you want to that message-board.
Are those all, like, essentially cylindrical faceted sections? I wonder if their probability distribution is the same as a truly equally angled die.
A mathematician I am not. Need a chi square test.
The Zuchi (Zucchi?) dice arent all "faceted cylinders" - only the d3. We've been most surprised by the d5 - it doesnt look fair, but it appears to be (admittedly with only a sample size of 100, but still).
I hoped that, with DCC proving reasonably successful, some more of these would become available at more competitive prices. Not yet, apparently. :(
Not all of them. Some are made like d10s but with greater or smaller number of faces.
I like the d24 design - one of those obvious ideas...once someone gets around to having it.
(It's basically a d6 with each "face" of the d6 replaced with 4 triangles leaning against each other. Hmm...not sure that describes it well, but it's a cute solution, anyhow).
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The thing I like about a d24 is that it can be used as a d2, d3, d4, d6, d8 & d12 (and even a d20 if you re-roll anything over 20).
(Well, as a mathematician I also appreciate the fact that it is a Catalan solid, or the dual of an Archimedean polyhedron, known as the Tetrakis Hexahedron)
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I am happy I purchased most of the bizarre dice (d24, d14, d16, d7, d5, d3, etc.) when they were available. The selection of dice being offered has deteriorated in the past couple years. I wanted to add this to Product Discussion, but you can't add products you want to that message-board.
They all appear to be available on the Chessex homepage.
(Well, as a mathematician...
Academic or industry? Personally, I love when I'm able to pull out a large number of "educational aids" when I talk about the proof to the fact that there are only five platonic solids. It's fun to start the class with "which of these things is not like the others..." and have them eventually pick out the d10.
Hmm - maybe I'll just replace all my d10s with d12s in my games. The poor d12 doesn't get enough love, if you ask me.
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(Well, as a mathematician...Academic or industry?
Recreational, mostly. Back in the dim and distant past when I was an undergraduate, Computer Science was post-graduate stuff; you got your degree in mathematics, then switched to computer science. In my final year they decided to offer what was mostly the post-graduate course as a third-year option, so I switched, and was one of the 40 in the first class to graduate with a Mathematics/Computer Science degree. But by then I'd spent a couple of years hanging around watching what John Conway was doing (and even wrote the first ever Life program).
I had an original copy of Coxeter/Longuet-Higgins/Miller's paper on Uniform Polyhedra (which was given to me by Professor Miller), but it got lost in a disagreement with a landlord three or four years later :-( I've still got a photocopy I made, and of course nowadays it's available as a PDF from the Royal Society.