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Very interesting. The earliest example of the familiar cube shaped dice I know if is from Indus valley civilisation from around 2600 BC, closely followed by Mes
by srean 7mo ago
Very interesting. The earliest example of the familiar cube shaped dice I know if is from Indus valley civilisation from around 2600 BC, closely followed by Mesopotamian dice.
This discovery pushes the history of dice from 5K years to 12K years.
These aren't quite as symmetric. I guess humans had to wait longer to discover some of the platonic solids.
This golden icosahedron of orders of magnitude more recent vintage is quite a beauty
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/333949003_A_Numbered_Icosahedron_from_India_Mystery_and_Meaning https://www.researchgate.net/publication/333949003_A_Numbere...
- poulpy123 7mo agoWhat the article call dices are flat rocks with marking, the indus valley dice are identical to the one we use now, including the numbering from one to six. If flat rocks with marking are considered dice so the first dice are 3.3 millions years as well as the first contemplation of "concepts like the law of large numbers, a mathematics concept that describes how a random sample will trend toward an equal distribution over time" to quote the NBC article
- srean 7mo agoYou have a point.