Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B UNSW 1.0 3/14/84; site elecvax.OZ Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!unc!mcnc!decvax!mulga!munnari!basser!elecvax!davidp From: davidp@elecvax.OZ (David Martin Ward Powers) Newsgroups: net.math Subject: Re: Polyhedral dice Message-ID: <328@elecvax.OZ> Date: Wed, 19-Sep-84 18:29:38 EDT Article-I.D.: elecvax.328 Posted: Wed Sep 19 18:29:38 1984 Date-Received: Tue, 25-Sep-84 20:08:03 EDT References: <554@ihlts.UUCP> <514@oliven.UUCP> Organization: EE and CS, Uni of NSW, Sydney, Australia Lines: 9 There is a dodecahedron with each of the twelve sides a rhombus - an equilateral diamond. This is the shape of the space occupied by a sphere in a regular shifting closepack, I believe. (The shape of packed bubbles?) This would be fine as a dice since it each face is identical and bears the same relationship to its neighbours. David Powers UNSW, Australia ..!decvax!mulga!davidp:elecvax