Hmm, thanx Piotr. Your counterarguement was going so well until
I reread and noticed your underlying uncertainty...
>And yet dicemakers have almost invariably used the "less intuitive"
>add-up-to-seven design [...]
Ahah! _Almost_ invariably? So there _are_ cases where the die
doesn't add up to seven like it should? Another thing: you
are connecting the dice to "divining" and the like... but
what if the dice were just made for gambling and not made by a "dice-making
guild"? Also, perhaps there was a divine meaning
to the more intuitive, "serpentine" method of dice-making I illustrated.
>Any schoolchild knows (or should know) that the arrangement doesn't affect
>the odds, [...]
Actually, I don't recall being taught very much at all about permutation and
combinatorix until first-year university
>:( Damn Canadian education system! I'm moving to Europe...
actually, I don't even have money to move to Moose Jaw.
Oh well. Here's to dreams, my friends.
- gLeN
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