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[sdbardwick]

Originally Posted by Christenson

It's only a prism if there are three sides....the rest are "rod" shapes....

No.

[Christenson]

Originally Posted by sdbardwick

No.

Of course not.
I'm discussing colloquial usage, not the "proper" definitions...look in a machinists parts catalog sometime.

[davieddy]

Originally Posted by retina

Or make it a proper cylinder with the only flat sections being at the ends (like a standard tin can) and adjust the length so that there is a 1 in 63360 chance it will land on one of the flat ends.

Visions of Mally

[davieddy]

Originally Posted by retina

Once per day would be perfectly adequate.

One further advantage of this: gauging progress would
be simplified.

David

[davieddy]

Originally Posted by Christenson

@NBTarheel:
How were you planning on adjusting the probability that that marble (whch CAN'T be a regular polyhedron in 3-space, since we ARE on a computational number theory forum) would come up with the "0" on top to 1:63,630 ?

You threw Clarke's Law at me the other day.

Who said "regular"? You can construct a polyhedron with any number of faces (>3 (?)) you like, and I'm sure one could adjust the vertices to come
up with an "unbiassed" 63360 sided die.

David