Can we settle this: how many holes does a straw have?
Can we settle this: how many holes does a straw have?
At work we somehow landed on the topic of how many holes a human has, which then evolved into a heated discussion on the classic question of how many holes does a straw have.
I think it's two, but some people are convinced that it's one, which I just don't understand. What are your thoughts?
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Well, depends what you call a hole. Does a glass have a hole? Does a bottle have a hole?
If you said no to both, you mean a topological hole and a straw has one.
If you said yes to one or both of them, you mean a tight opening in which someting can be inserted (yes yes, innuendo). How tight an opening must be to be a hole is arbitrary and subjective, it depends on the person. In this case a straw has two holes.
I think the solution here is to have a way to measure the tightness of a hole (of which something can be inserted)
Maybe a cylinder