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Originally Posted by whswhs
That seems to be a shift of topic, from "what is a one-sided die?" or "how many sides does a spherical die have?" to "how can an infinite-sided die be realized physically?" I think that's one shift too many. I only took up the sidedness of a spherical die to question the supposition that it was properly described as a one-sided die; I wasn't pursuing it for its own sake. But I don't see how your sand table can be interpreted as a one-sided die . . .
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I suppose by that definition a one sided die is an infinite plane. If you toss it on the table it will always have the same side touching it, because you can't actually flip it around - the table will always get in the way.