"Ronn!Blankenship" wrote: > > At 04:01 PM 5/16/04, Julia Thompson wrote: > >"Ronn!Blankenship" wrote: > > > > > > At 01:59 PM 5/16/04, Julia Thompson wrote: > > > >"Ronn!Blankenship" wrote: > > > > > > > > > > At 12:10 PM 5/16/04, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > > > >In a message dated 5/16/2004 9:43:00 AM US Mountain Standard Time, > > > > > >[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > Julia > > > > > > > > > > > > > > Forget Babies R Us, Toys R Us -- Insanity R Us, that's the way > > to go > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > >Yes, but under theoretical rules of super string super-symmetry, > > there's > > > > > >really no such thing as a reversed R. > > > > > > > > > > R, 2! > > > > > > > >D, 2! > > > > > > Wouldn't a d2 die be a coin? > > > >Or you could use a d4 or d6 and mark multiple faces with each number. > > > >I have a d3 that's just a d6 marked twice with each number. (I collect > >interesting dice.) > > Do you have a d100? > > -- Ronn! :)
Yes. It's orange.
A friend of mine who had one described it as "a golf ball with attitude". Those things take awhile to settle, and it's a little tricky sometimes to figure out which face is *up*.
Yes. Note that I didn't say it was all that \useful\. (And it is absolutely \worthless\ if you don't have a smooth, level, hard surface to roll it on.) Just wanted to make sure you had one in your collection. Mine is sort of the same brown color as a cardboard box. There wasn't a whole lot of variety available at that time, and I haven't seen them in a whole lot of places, although that may just reflect the demand for such things in places I have lived. (I got that one while living in Utah.)
I have a set (actually, at least two sets, IIRC) of 3 d10s, numbered 00(10)90, 0(1)9, and 0/10(1/10)9/10. Occasionally when I'm about to hand back a test or something like that, I pull them out and ask if any of the students would like to roll the dice and take the sum of them rather than the actual grade they earned. So far, no one has taken me up on the offer, possibly because I usually demonstrate with a few rolls, and they see that they are just as likely to get a very low grade as to better their grade. FWIW, I got them at a teacher's supply store. I've noticed that they also have some with numbers and others with arithmetic operator symbols (+, -, x, /, =, and maybe < and >) for making up "flash card" type problems as well as some with letters and combinations of letters for creating words. Does your collection extend to dice like that, or only ones more or less suited to playing games?
-- Ronn! :)
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