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by vee-kay 146 days ago
The Roman Dodecahedrons were discussed on HN before.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44565806

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39102069

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24332244

Several theories on their purpose, most plausible (IMHO) is that that they were used for knitting.

https://www.reddit.com/r/ancientrome/comments/17a17ju/roman_...
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pseudohadamard 146 days ago
And they're all wrong. The real use was with a (now decayed-away) wooden ball inside them which, when shaken, displayed texts like "certum est" and "iterum postulo".
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