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Dice are small throwable objects used for generating random numbers.

• A traditional die is a rounded cube, with each of its six faces showing a different number of dots (pips) from 1 to 6. When thrown or rolled, the die comes to rest showing on its upper surface a random integer from 1 to 6, each value being equally likely.
• A variety of similar items are also described as dice; such specialized dice may be tetrahedrons, dodecahedrons, or irregular solids, and may have faces marked with symbols instead of numbers. Different dice are often referred to as 'd#' where the '#' references the highest value on the dice (i.e. d6 for 6-sided, d20 for 20-sided, etc.).

Non-standard numberings include the Sicherman dice ($$1, 2, 2, 3, 3, 4$$ and $$1, 3, 4, 5, 6, 8$$ - throw them together and the distribution is the same as with two normal dice), and nontransitive dice, where A beats B over $$50\%$$ of the time, B beats C over $$50\%$$ of the time, but A doesn't beat C over $$50\%$$ of the time, for example $$[2, 2, 4, 4, 9, 9]$$, $$[1, 1, 6, 6, 8, 8]$$ and $$[3, 3, 5, 5, 7, 7]$$.

A loaded dice is one that doesn't have a uniform distribution for the probability of landing on each face.