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Furthermore this article only states: “They are not of a standard size, so will not be measuring devices.", which is incorrect since for use as a coincidence rangefinder (standardized to some standard) only the ratios between sizes of opposite holes would need to be standardized, not the size of the thing as a whole.

The paper "Roman Dodecahedron as dioptron: analysis of freely available data" (https://arxiv.org/abs/1206.0946) collects measurements of opposite hole pairs for 7 artefacts for anyone wanting to do their own analysis.




Measuring devices do not need to be standard size if you're not comparing them or following a recipe of sorts.

You can use anything as a "ruler" to measure something and transfer that measurement to something else. It's what a jig or form does, after all.


Seems to me the "experts" have no experience in construction, so they dismiss it - which makes me dismiss them.




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