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Old 05-24-2022, 06:47 PM   #78
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Default Re: Gaming philosophy conundra

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Originally Posted by whswhs View Post

As for displaying an infinite number of possible displayed results, let our ideal sphere have color gradations: changes of hue with longitude, and changes from pure black to pure white with longitude. In physical reality, those color points could not be smaller than single molecules, but as an abstract philosophical hypothesis we can have arbitrarily small areas of color, and arbitrarily keen vision to discern which is which.
Why a sphere? Why not a sand table?

Suppose the results are calculated by the elevation of where the die lands not by numbers on the die itself?
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