How many holes does a straw have?

[dodint]

Brutal.

[Lemon Berry Lobster]

You can turn a piece of paper into a hollow cylinder.

you can turn a piece of paper in to a straw

As long as it isn't too girthy for your mouth.

[shafnutz05]

Is that one of @dodint's patented undershirts?

[columbia]

You can turn a piece of paper into a hollow cylinder.

you can turn a piece of paper in to a straw

For snorting something....sure.

[shafnutz05]

For snorting something....sure.

A crisp new 20 is better. Not the old raggedy kind.

[grunthy]

If you had a cylinder with one of these drilled in the top, and a separate one drilled in the bottom, it would be 2 holes and 2 openings. If they connect/go all the way through, it is one hole with 2 openings.

[robbiestoupe]

If I have a steel plate that is, for example, 1/4" thick and a I want to drill a hole through it, do I drill halfway through one end and finish on the other end? If so, do I put this information on a drawing, and say I want two holes?

[robbiestoupe]

dammit nobody

Actually, that's a bad example because there are technically two holes. A drilled hole and a tapped hole.

[meow]

A “hole” is just the area that is devoid of material. The fact that you can see that hole means there is an opening. A straw has one hole and two openings.

[grunthy]

dammit nobody

Actually, that's a bad example because there are technically two holes. A drilled hole and a tapped hole.

Huh? A tapped hole is just a threaded hole. I wasn’t saying have two separate types, just two holes, one on top one on bottom. You can choose which hole from that picture you want.

[Silentom]

Does a Twizzler count as a straw?

[willeyeam]

A “hole” is just the area that is devoid of material. The fact that you can see that hole means there is an opening. A straw has one hole and two openings.

If there was a hole, this is the correct answer. If there was a "hole to the other side of the Earth," there'd be one hole. With an opening here and another one on the other side of the Earth. Alas, it's just a cylinder with no holes.

[shmenguin]

take a piece of paper. take a pencil. jam the pencil thru the piece of paper. how many holes do you see? whatever you say is the same answer as this.

[robbiestoupe]

dammit nobody

Actually, that's a bad example because there are technically two holes. A drilled hole and a tapped hole.

Huh? A tapped hole is just a threaded hole. I wasn’t saying have two separate types, just two holes, one on top one on bottom. You can choose which hole from that picture you want.

Because that picture was a illustration on how to make a tapped hole. First you drill a blind hole with a regular drill bit, then you tap it. Since this involves two operations with two separate tools, you end up with two unique features called "holes". One's a drilled hole, one a tapped hole.

[robbiestoupe]

A “hole” is just the area that is devoid of material. The fact that you can see that hole means there is an opening. A straw has one hole and two openings.

If there was a hole, this is the correct answer. If there was a "hole to the other side of the Earth," there'd be one hole. With an opening here and another one on the other side of the Earth. Alas, it's just a cylinder with no holes.

What's the difference if the hole is "fabricated" from an otherwise "non-holed" object like a sphere, and an object with a natural hole like a cylinder? They're both holes. A cylinder can also be solid.

[shafnutz05]

Also, a wormhole, which is basically a long "straw" that warps spacetime, isn't plural either.

[mikey]

For snorting something....sure.

A crisp new 20 is better. Not the old raggedy kind.

What are you a depression-era ragamuffin...who does coke through a twenty...? Use a hundred, champ...

[grunthy]

dammit nobody

Actually, that's a bad example because there are technically two holes. A drilled hole and a tapped hole.

Huh? A tapped hole is just a threaded hole. I wasn’t saying have two separate types, just two holes, one on top one on bottom. You can choose which hole from that picture you want.

Because that picture was a illustration on how to make a tapped hole. First you drill a blind hole with a regular drill bit, then you tap it. Since this involves two operations with two separate tools, you end up with two unique features called "holes". One's a drilled hole, one a tapped hole.

You are reading waaaayyyyy tooo much into that picture. It was literally just to show a visual of a blind hole
Blueprint. That was the image I found with minimal effort.

So no further confusion....

[robbiestoupe]

Source of the post You are reading waaaayyyyy tooo much into that picture.

With the way people are getting technical ITT, it was necessary

[Pavel Bure]

It's a hollow cylinder. As such, a straw had zero holes.

A hollow cylinder has no opening. It has a known thickness around the entire perimeter and therefore has no openings and no holes. So yes, a hollow cylinder has zero holes. A straw is not a hollow cylinder.

whats the difference between a straw and a hollow cylinder? a straw was a hollow cylinder before it became a straw

Let's say that's true. Then you start by making a hole in one end and a 2nd hole in the other. 2 HOLES!

Or you could just make the first hole drilled all the way through, negating the step of going to the other end.

Even then if it's hollow you break through 1 barrier for one hole, then nothingness until you hit the other end which creates a second hole.

[Pavel Bure]

4

[Gaucho]

Surely your answer would have to be 8.

[dodint]

My case for zero is as follows: The straw was made by injecting the polymer onto a rod that forms the shape of the straw. From inception the straw is a rod-like entity formed with that center void. Nothing was ever extracted, no polymer material was ever removed to make that empty space.

A straw contains a hole as much as a cookie cutter does:

[grunthy]

A hollow cylinder has no opening. It has a known thickness around the entire perimeter and therefore has no openings and no holes. So yes, a hollow cylinder has zero holes. A straw is not a hollow cylinder.

whats the difference between a straw and a hollow cylinder? a straw was a hollow cylinder before it became a straw

Let's say that's true. Then you start by making a hole in one end and a 2nd hole in the other. 2 HOLES!

Or you could just make the first hole drilled all the way through, negating the step of going to the other end.

Even then if it's hollow you break through 1 barrier for one hole, then nothingness until you hit the other end which creates a second hole.

It’s called a thru hole... so one hole with two openings.

[Pavel Bure]

Way to argue semantics with hole vs. opening