Resumen de We ditched fate to make dice fairer
The dice used by gamblers in northern Europe became much more fair about 600 years ago. The pattern on the faces also changed. These two trends might reflect a growing awareness that bets were decided by chance, not by gods--even though probability theory was centuries away. Archaeologists often find dice, but rarely study them in detail. Now Jelmer Eerkens at the University of California Davis and Alex de Voogt at the American University of Natural History in New York have examined 110 dice from sites in the Netherlands. Medieval Europeans may have been increasingly aware of the importance of chance. "People in Roman times could make symmetrical dice, and they often did, says Eerkens.
