How Many Holes Does A Straw Have?

[MT 917]

Well?

[dr. b 492]

A straw has two ends but I'm not sure it has any holes

[MT 917]

What's on those ends though, do those count as holes? 

[Psycho666Soldier 283]

I consider a tube or a tunnel a hole, and one connected hole, so I say one.

[webhead 519]

I say it has no holes.  It has openings.  It's a tunnel.  A hole goes through something solid whereas a straw is build specifically to carry something through it.

 

Really depends on your definition of what a hole is.

[Vic Boss 612]

Cover over one of the ends of a straw and then poke a hole in the tube.

 

Two holes or one?

[webhead 519]

One.  There's a hole in the blocked tunnel.

[Vic Boss 612]

A tunnel isn't a tunnel without a hole at both ends

[webhead 519]

Openings. :x

[Vic Boss 612]

Which is what a hole is

[webhead 519]

Not strictly no.  I would also accept it is an infinite number of holes.

[Psycho666Soldier 283]

Well the implies that a hole is two-dimensional.  Holes are, by nature, three-dimensional.  So an opening has to be a hole unless you're differentiating by size or depth.

 

But I think you'll find that an opening is nothing more than a square to the hole's rectangle.

[Galeigh 308]

A hole doesn't require an exit but can have one, so the answer is 1 as there aren't multiple "tunnels" only a single tunnel with 2 exits meaning 1 hole. It's called a through hole.

 

 

[webhead 519]

It's definitely not 2.  I could be persuaded that it's 1.  I lean towards zero tho.

[Galeigh 308]

Bruh, it's literally a through hole. Like a donut. 

[webhead 519]

Yeah like I said zero possibly 1.  Not 2 though.

[Galeigh 308]

there is zero chance that it's zero holes -.-

 

Edit: Aight, I am gonna dial back the frustration here and explain. I am looking at the from the perspective of 3d modeling and as a result there is only one hole, but the possibility of 0 doesn't exist, 2 is ARGUABLE, but still most likely wrong as the straw itself is a solid mass other than the through hole. if I were to model this in a 3d program there would ONLY be 1 hole, no more, no less.

[webhead 519]

You define hole differently.  A tunnel isn't a solid mass with a hole through it.  A tunnel is a tunnel.  Lol.

 

New perspective: the term, “hole,” implies that something is missing. (Hole in my heart. Etc.) since removing the openings of the straw would make it not a straw, the straw must be dependent on the openings, meaning nothing in a straw is missing, meaning there are no holes.

 

Really just depends on how you define what a hole is. :X

[Galeigh 308]

https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/hole

[Garlic Junior 136]

It has two holes.

 

One at each end.

 

/thread

[webhead 519]

If it was /thread we wouldn't still be arguing.

 

[Jane 100]

 

This question got me thinking...

What if you got some water icing and "glued" a whole (hole, lol) load of donuts together to make a sort of tower/tunnel? A donut straw? How many holes would that have?

[Tassifox 418]

That comment now makes me think of Daniel Glover's bit in Knives Out where he's comparing the murder to donut holes and holes in donuts.........See what you all started now!?

[Rulkster 47]

Does a cylinder have 1 or 2 holes?

Think of it like a donut: it only has one hole. Just because the hole in the straw is longer, that doesn't mean it counts as two hole. We're tempted to say a straw has two holes because it has two circles and two openings

 

Right from google cause I'm lazy. 

[Hornet 114]

Topographically, mathematically, it has 1 hole. But it feels instinctively like it has 2... But then the earth instinctively feels flat.

 

1

[webhead 519]

It is definitely not 2.  After that we are probably getting nitpicky and I'd just concede to 1 because I'm half trolling about zero but it really does kind of depend on what you call a "hole" per se.