Looney Labs Icehouse Mailing list Archive

Re: [Icehouse] Non-standard piece sizes

  • FromChristopher Hickman <tophu@xxxxxxx>
  • DateMon, 05 Mar 2007 14:23:11 -0800
On Monday, March 05, 2007, at 02:22PM, "Jeff Wolfe" <jwolfe@xxxxxxxx> wrote:
>The mention of Zendo in the discussion of non-standard piece sizes got me to
>thinking.  A zero pip piece would be cool, no doubt ("more pieces than pips"
>immediately comes to mind).  But what would really be interesting would be a
>negative-one pip piece, which seems to be supported by all of the formulas
>I've seen so far, at least theoretically.

In theory, yes, but until you show me the practical method of physically representing a negative pip on the side of the pyramid, I will not acknowledge said pyramid.  The zero-pointer has zero pips on its sides.