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Citation needed

The question of the pips altering the odds got a slew of s:

Some people claim that the pips on the face of certain styles of dice can cause a small bias, but there is no research to support this claim.

The supposed bias is reduced somewhat in the Japanese die with its oversized single pip (pictured).

Casino dice have markings that are flush, offering the assurance that this brings them very close to providing true uniformly distributed random numbers.

If a couple of people (some) claim pips alter the odds, which is awfully likely, then no citation is needed, right? Some people claim that two plus two equals four. - 67.224.51.189 (talk) 17:20, 29 August 2010 (UTC)

Hope this helps. I've found a few dice patents (3399897, 273146000) where the pips are carefully arranged to provide balanced weighting. The pips are only an issue when they remove material from the solid shape of the die (drilled, embossed, etc). Less of an issue if the dice are larger, denser, or more massive. One site which mentions pip weighting is here, http://www.scrapyardarmory.com/2009/08/26/fair-dice/ —Preceding unsigned comment added by 206.116.69.88 (talk) 23:36, 1 October 2010 (UTC)

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What's needed are vector images of role-playing game dice (8- and 20-sided for instance) to replace the ones in the current image. Here are some examples, though what is needed are vector images, not photographs.

The color doesn't really matter, though plain red and orange work well. Thanks! SharkD  Talk  08:07, 16 September 2010 (UTC)

Two dices together with rope (Fuzzy dice)

This is very commonly seen, like here or here (starting at 3:57). Does it mean anything? Knopffabrik (talk) 13:13, 19 September 2010 (UTC)

I suppose they're just meant to be hung from the ceiling or in the windscreen of a vehicle as a decoration. There are so many other things one might hang up, and I've no idea why dice are popular - so, do they "mean" something? I really don't know!--Nø (talk) 14:30, 19 September 2010 (UTC)

See Fuzzy dice. ~rezecib 03:25, 20 September 2010 (UTC)

Notation for Percentile Dice

I've never seen the notation for percentile dice shown as 1d100 or 1d%. It's always d100 or d%, since gamers never talk about the sum of more than one random roll of 100. 204.92.65.10 (talk) 14:47, 4 January 2011 (UTC)

I remember I have been asked to roll 10d100 (10d%) to simulate a probability of "1/1000", though I admit it was inaccurate and would have been better done as 1d1000 or 1d‰. // But on a related note, most game systems indicate single die rolls as "1dX", not "dX", when it comes to most common die rolls, thus I do not see why rolls of hundred0sided dice should stand any different. Salvidrim (talk) 20:27, 6 February 2011 (UTC)

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