Re: [tuning] Digest Number 900

Paul Erlich wrote:

>
> Message: 17
> Date: Fri, 20 Oct 2000 16:57:51 -0400
> From: "Paul H. Erlich" <PERLICH@ACADIAN-ASSET.COM>
> Subject: RE: Re: How do I triangulate an N-dim lattice?
>
> >Very nice. "Scary" file name, though. Sounds like it could be a
> >virus...
>
> Sorry, I was thinking "dice". Did you ever play Dungeons and Dragons? There
> were many different-shaped dice, and this would be the 8-sided die. There
> was a 30-sided die too, and I think that can be understood as a
> five-dimensional Euler genus . . . the movie is all set . . .

Paul! Not that I ever played D&D, but I'm quite sure it was a 20-sided
dice - wasn't there one of each Platonic solid, i.e. 4-sided, 6-sided,
8-sided, 12-sided and 20-sided? You can't have a 30-sided dice with all
faces identical, so it wouldn't be a fair one...

Keenan Pepper wrote:

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> Message: 25
> Date: Fri, 20 Oct 2000 20:06:55 -0400
> From: "Keenan Pepper" <mtpepper@prodigy.net>
> Subject: Re: Re: How do I triangulate an N-dim lattice?

[mildly scary stuff snipped]

> Have fun!
> -Keenan P., who is still 13 years old (14 next week!)

yeah, but in which base?! In 19-tET I'm only 12!

can someone produce a .mid of Happy Birthday in "Keenan's Pepper's
proposed 'Noble Fifth' temperament, which happens to be a beautiful and
brilliant optimization from a neo-Gothic point of view"?

Jon Wild wrote,

>Paul! Not that I ever played D&D, but I'm quite sure it was a 20-sided
>dice - wasn't there one of each Platonic solid, i.e. 4-sided, 6-sided,
>8-sided, 12-sided and 20-sided?

>You can't have a 30-sided dice with all
>faces identical, so it wouldn't be a fair one...

Yes you can, see what I just posted. You got it in the _specialty_ D&D
stores.

>wasn't there one of each Platonic solid, i.e. 4-sided, 6-sided,
>8-sided, 12-sided and 20-sided?

There was also a 10-sided die in the _standard_ set.