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The Eleven-Faced Die That Emulates Two Six-Sided Dice (hackaday.com)
30 points by sohkamyung 37 days ago | hide | past | favorite | 2 comments


The recreational dice scene has lots of these "not really useful in real world but we still cracked the math" kind of solutions. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5q32heFz1bs (Go First Dice - Numberphile)


I think these sorts of irregular shapes are very sensitive to how they are rolled. Like, the distribution when they are dropped on a surface from directly above may be very different than being rolled laterally.




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