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A coin is a two-sided dice, amirite?

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A building is a huge rock

There is actually a third (but rare) chance of it landing on its side. So its like a d3 with skewed odds.

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@Openeyes A similar chance exists for a die and ending up on a corner, no?

Good point.
Most die corners are rounded, but there are the pointy ones where it could happen once in a blue moon. It'd be like a glitch in the matrix moment.

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@-avoidingwork- There is actually a third (but rare) chance of it landing on its side. So its like a d3 with skewed odds.

In fact, this happened to me once. I threw about a dozen coins on the table and one quarter landed on its edge, spun around and stayed standing - and did not roll away. But of course no one believes me.

There is no numbers on coins so no

From now on I'm going to refer to flipping a coin as 'rolling a d2'

as a math teacher, i approve

Dice is plural you mean die, and no it's not.

@Rowgeara Well? Why isn't it?

A coin is a flat, metal disc. A die is typically a 6 sided plastic cube, but can be up to 120 sides.

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