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  2. Dice notation - Wikipedia

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    7th Sea and Legend of the Five Rings use only 10-sided dice, so it omits the number of sides, using notation of the form , meaning "roll eight ten-sided dice, keep the highest six, and sum them."Although using a roll and keep system, Cortex Plus games all use roll all the dice of different sizes and keep two (normally the two best), although a ...

  3. List of numeral systems - Wikipedia

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    "A base is a natural number B whose powers (B multiplied by itself some number of times) are specially designated within a numerical system." [1]: 38 The term is not equivalent to radix, as it applies to all numerical notation systems (not just positional ones with a radix) and most systems of spoken numbers. [1]

  4. Dice - Wikipedia

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    Dice of different sizes being thrown in slow motion. A die (sg.: die or dice; pl.: dice) [1] is a small, throwable object with marked sides that can rest in multiple positions. Dice are used for generating random values, commonly as part of tabletop games, including dice games, board games, role-playing games, and games of chance.

  5. DICE framework - Wikipedia

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    The DICE framework, or Duration, Integrity, Commitment, and Effort framework is a tool for evaluating projects, [1] predicting project outcomes, and allocating resources strategically to maximize delivery of a program or portfolio of initiatives, aiming for consistency in evaluating projects with subjective inputs.

  6. Why Ancient Romans Used Asymmetrical Dice With Lopsided ... - AOL

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    Archeologists regularly unearth asymmetrical dice with lopsided probabilities from the Roman Empire. What’s going on here? Why Ancient Romans Used Asymmetrical Dice With Lopsided Probabilities

  7. Intransitive dice - Wikipedia

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    A set of dice is intransitive (or nontransitive) if it contains X>2 dice, X1, X2, and X3... with the property that X1 rolls higher than X2 more than half the time, and X2 rolls higher than X3 etc... more than half the time, but where it is not true that X1 rolls higher than Xn more than half the time.

  8. Astragalomancy - Wikipedia

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    The text contains sixty four oracles, each of which is associated with a deity, as well as being keyed to a particular three number combination or numerical trigram, placing this method at an intersection between Chinese numerical trigram divination traditions, and Indian dice divination traditions. [23]

  9. Quincunx - Wikipedia

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    The same pattern has other names, including "in saltire" or "in cross" in heraldry (depending on the orientation of the outer square), the five-point stencil in numerical analysis, and the five dots tattoo. It forms the arrangement of five units in the pattern corresponding to the five-spot on six-sided dice, playing cards, and dominoes.