The origins of Dice and the Types

Dice (from Latin: datum which means "something given nam oljhkh judge br" [1] is a small object that is generally shaped cubes that are used to generate random numbers or symbols. The dice used in various children's games and gambling. generally, the dice are used in pairs. Dadu traditional cube-shaped often with obtuse angles and have different numbers or symbols on each side. Dadu is designed to provide a random round numbers from one to six with equal probability. Traditionally, pairs figure by the number of the number seven is made on the opposite side.

Cube, dice is a sixth object side in the form marked tiitk ranging from one to six points. If you look, the point - the point at two areas that are dealing always has 7. For example, point 1 is paired with six points, three points paired with point 4, and tiitk 2 pairs with point 5. That's the dice that stores mathematical laws of probability.

Allegedly, dice cube with a similar practical pendandaan modern adadu been around since 600 BC, even 2000 BC, based on the evidence of several dice were found during excavation of the tomb in China and Egypt. While in India, since more than 2000 years ago, there have been the first written record of the dice in the Sanskrit epic, the Mahabharata.

According to Sophocles (495-406 BC), dice ditemkan by a greek when the attack on Troy. while Herodotus (484-425 BC) argues, the nation Lydia - an ancient kingdom in western Asia Minor in the reign of Atys - as the originator of the idea of ​​making dice. But two archaeologists rejected that opinion. According to their findings, the dice are already in use in the early peradabanlebih. Included in that group is the North American Indians, Aztecs and Maya. Island communities around the Pacific, Eskimo, and Africa. they have a game with dice of various materials, shapes and strange way of tagging.

Dice - dice it were from the body of plum and peach seeds, seeds, bones of deer and oxen, deer antlers walnut grain leather, marble, ceramics, and beaver teeth and moles.

In the next civilization in Greece and Romaw, although umumnys dice made ​​of bone and ivory, there are bermterikan bronze, and the various rocks began marble, agate, crystal oniks, porcelain, etc.. shape was not only a cube but a pyramid, penthahedral, and octahedral with a number of variations of the surface.


In primitive societies the original dice tool to predict the future. typically, made ​​from sheep's ankle bones are marked in the four fields.

Then, the dice so old plaything. type of game too many and varied. One group of people who like games with dice is the ancient Romans. It was shown in the pictures on the wall of a tavern Pompeli about some people who were playing dice. Pompeli city buried by the eruption of Mount Vesuvius in 79. The Romans called her dice tesserae.

They also have a dice marked on four sides is called a rope. Some tesserae found at Herculaneum. In the play, the numbers out on the dice unpredictable, but anyone tried to set it fraudulently, Dadu "cheating" is never found in the tombs of Ancient Egypt. East Asia, and North and South American cemetery.

The dice are not perfect cube created by slicing one or more fields so that the shape is more like the smell of brick. Alhasi, dice will often land on a wider surface, and the numbers on the reverse is often out. This technique is often used. Another way is to give additional weight just below the surface of one of the fields. As a result, the field would otherwise be more frequent.

In his journey, which continues to kubuslah shaped dice used up to now, even spread to various parts of the world. Dice nowadays usually of plastic. There are two kinds, perfect and imperfect. the perfect type most often used in the casino. In the dice perfectly angled lines meeting the two sides sharply, its size must also be appropriate. Acceptable tolerance of the standard trade size is 0.0013 cm!

While not perfect dice often played everyday, such as checkers or snakes stairs. These dice have a line meeting and obtuse angles. When the dice sempurnadibuat by hand, then the dice are made with imperfect machinery.

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