Does a straw have one or two holes?
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Do you consider your mouth and your asshole one hole?
Two; two holes that lead to a continuous opening. Next question.
It’s two holes, if you covered one end up it would still have 1 hole, but when you open the end you covered it has 2. How can you add an opening and not be having your number of holes increase?
If you dig a tunnel into the ground and dig across the yard and come out and dig your way up back through the ground, you have two holes in your yard, just because they space inside can be accessed from either point doesn’t mean there’s not two holes in your yard.
This is a good point. I personally do not.
Wrong. Your scenario describes one hole with two openings. Just like the straw.
Someone should have used a basketball goal as an analogy. A rim is just a really squished straw. Would you say a basketball rim has one or two holes. it was one hole through it, but two openings.
Topologically it’s one hole. Think of a doughnut. One hole. Now stretch the doughnut. Didn’t add a hole just made it look like 2. And yes, your mouth and asshole are the same tube just like the doughnut. Yes, it sucks but there you go.
Some people do got a lotta ish comin out both
The Zen philosopher, Basho, once wrote, 'A flute with no holes, is not a flute. A donut with no hole, is a Danish.' He was a funny guy.
Unless it’s damaged, it has zero holes. A straw is simply a cylinder with two open ends, but the fact that they’re open doesn’t make them “holes”.
Just like a drinking glass is a cylinder with only one open end, but you wouldn’t call the top of the glass a “hole”.
Just like a drinking glass is a cylinder with only one open end, but you wouldn’t call the top of the glass a “hole”.
I hope he was just messing around or the 2yrs at WVU has really messed this kid up.
It feels like it after Taco Bell or White Castle though
Best answer to the question. I've read them all and no-one gets close to this explanation.
I will forever think of this analogy every time I use a straw!
Depends on the method of manufacture. I agree the the poster who said it’s a cylinder and has no holes. But imagine a metal rod with the middle literally drilled out since it was at one point solid and now is hollow I’d say it has ‘one’ hole now. If the straw was formed by casting metal to make a hollow cylinder then it has no holes. I don’t see how it can have two holes though.
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1/64th of an inch would no longer be a straw.
That would be 4 openings and it would result in a solid disc if flattened out. You were close though so here's your ribbon!
Straws are not necessarily cylinders. They are circular hollow structures. Other examples would be gas lines, air tubing, steel conduit pipe and plumbing pipes. They have ends. If they have holes you are crawling under the house to fix a water leak or sucking bubbles with your pop from the straw.
According to the great mathematician Riemann, the way you can count the number of holes a topological object has it by counting the number of cuts you can make in it before you cut it into two pieces.
Using his definition, a straw has one hole.
https://www.quantamagazine.org/topology-101-how-mathematicians-study-holes-20210126/
Using his definition, a straw has one hole.
https://www.quantamagazine.org/topology-101-how-mathematicians-study-holes-20210126/
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