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Written by David Mana   
Friday, 07 July 2006

A slightly water-damaged wooden box of the kind used for carrying playing cards aboard of vessels (brass anchor set on the lid, brass finishing), now containing three blue granodiorite cubes (the side being roughly 5 cms) on the faces of which numbers were carved, probably for them to be used as playing dice, and obviously of great antiquity.

The first die carries the numbers 2, 3, 5, 7, 11, 13
The second die carries the numbers 1, 1, 2, 3, 5, 8
The third die carries the numbers 1, 3, 6, 10, 15, 21

The cubes are well-worn and slightly cracked. Isotope dating on the rock has proven inconclusive.

Woods-lamp analysis on the box revealed the remains of a blue-ink cargo stamp, based on which we can say for certain that the box was on board of the French warship Orient in 1798 and, on the inside of the lid,
traces of  Copper-bases blue blood (probably belonging to a horseshoe crab or similar crustacean).


Credits: Davide Mana 

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jonnyx - more fun   | 67.33.130.218 | 2006-07-10 10:56:52
Suppose the dice aren't limited to three dimensions and six faces? The numbers might change with each roll. And the dice would be abnormally heavy...

A 4d hypercube will have 24 faces and 8x the mass of a normal 3d cube.
A 5d hypercube will have 80 faces and 40x the mass of a normal 3d cube.

Here's a chart with the progression:

http://gregegan.customer.netspace.net.au/APPLETS/29/HypercubeNotes.html

Original thread:

http://games.groups.yahoo.com/group/dglist/message/12774

--jX
glewellyn - Curves   | 80.126.81.143 | 2006-07-08 01:18:41
For the mathematically challenged ;) :

The first die has the first 6 prime numbers on it.
Prime numbers

The second die has the first six numbers from the Fibonacci curve on it.
[URL=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ Fibonacci_number]Fib
onacci numbers[/URL]

The third die has the first 6 triangular numbers on it.
[URL=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ Triangular_number]Tr
iangular number[/URL]
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