do you say \"d six six\" or \"d sixty six\"
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The second one. d66 tables were sometimes referred to as d6/d6 tables decades ago, but \u2013 unless you pronounce the slash \u2013 \u201cd6/d6\u201d sounds exactly like \u201cdee-sixty-six\u201d, so the latter soon stuck.
My group has always read d66 as \u201cd6 percentile,\u201d which is wrong in every conceivable way but communicates to someone with our precise degree of brain-rot how the roll is imagined.
I mean, it\u2019s not wrong wrong.
D6 36-quantile?
I think my favourite proposal is that one guy who was like \u201ccalling it a d66 is counterintuitive, you should call it a d36 and then have a little paragraph explaining that it\u2019s read in base 6\u2033 \u2013 like, really? Introducing alternative bases is your plan for making it more intuitive for the average reader?
Also it\u2019s not actually in base six because \u201c6\u201d isn\u2019t a symbol you can use in base 6.
I get what they\u2019re going for, but if you want to be correct you\u2019d have to say it\u2019s in base six and also you\u2019re using an alternate numeral system where \u201c1\u201d represents zero, \u201c2\u201d represents one, all the way up to \u201c6\u201d which represents five. And then you have all the numbers from 11 (zero) up through 66 (thirty-five).
And that is definitely an intuitive explanation that will confuse nobody.
d6^2, obviously
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