Shower Thoughts Thread

Most letters started out as pictographs showing something that happened to start with the same sound, and become simpler and more abstract over time. Dice that aren't using Arabic numerals could be considered pictographic: they show a representation of the numbers directly. So what if we took those pictographs, and made them simpler and more abstract?

Here's my attempt at doing that. Top section is what would end up on a hypothetical die: it makes sure all of the 1-6 can be distinguished regardless of orientation. Bottom row is written numerals for 1-9, I'll admit I'm kind of proud of how the abstraction preserves 2+3=5, 4+4=8,and 3/2*6=9. 7 has its odd dot moved out of the middle to stop it looking like 11 (6+5).
bad dice.png

1-9
bad dice 9.png
 
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couldn't you theoretically make a mini sun and use it to power things. Or is that just nuclear energy
 

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