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by ajarmst 3125 days ago
Perhaps, but the salient characteristic of dice is that the sides are marked. When you talk about dice becoming ordered, there is a very strong implication that you mean the sequence of facing sides, not the packing factor. If we must be pedantic, then the phrase "rounded cubes"---or even "dice-shaped-cubes"---would be more accurate and relevant than "dice" (which aren't even invariably cubes, but are invariably marked).