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How many holes does a straw have?

  • No holes/What a straw has isn't a "hole"

    Votes: 9 23.1%
  • 1 hole

    Votes: 17 43.6%
  • 2 holes

    Votes: 10 25.6%
  • 3+ holes

    Votes: 3 7.7%

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Jediweirdo

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Please this question has a very obvious answer and there's only a valid argument for like 2 of these options. Literally everyone I know came up with the same objectively wrong answer so please restore my faith in humanity
 

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For anyone who believes it is 2 holes, this poses an interesting question. How long/thick does something have to be for 1 hole to become 2 holes? If you cut a circle out of the middle of a piece of paper, is it still 2 holes? Where do you draw the line at?
 
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On a more seriously side, on engineering we call this type of holes pass-through holes.
That’s also what we called them in my trade.
For anyone who believes it is 2 holes, this poses an interesting question. How long/thick does something have to be for 1 hole to become 2 holes? If you cut a circle out of the middle of a piece of paper, is it still 2 holes? Where do you draw the line at?
If a straw has two holes because it has two sides, then so does a piece of paper. Or any imaginable material, no matter the thickness of the material.

As long as there’s two sides, there’s two holes.
 
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If a straw has two holes because it has two sides, then so does a piece of paper. Or any imaginable material, no matter the thickness of the material.

As long as there’s two sides, there’s two holes.
With that logic, can there ever not be 2 holes? Let's say you have a ball and poke a hole into it. Is it 2 holes because the hole is on both the inner and outer of the ball or 1 hole because the ball only has a single hole on the outside that never reaches the other side of the outer part of the ball.

My point was more pointing out the ridiculousness of the question. A bit like asking if water is wet. It just depends how you define wetness, or in this case a hole.
 
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If you define the word "hole" as an aperture or an opening, then a straw would have two.

If you define the entire space that a hole is taking up with empty area, then a straw would have one.

It comes down to how you define the word, in my completely unqualified opinion.
 
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A ten miles tunnel have 2 entrances but at the end of day is only a hole, the tunnel have a hole and two entrances.
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you don need to "define" use the actual and agreeded definition, for english I think is the webster dictionary. in Spanish we have an institution dedicated to maintain the concepts and definitions of words and language, is called Real Academia Española.
 

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Uno.

I stopped using straws since the paper ones are absolutely worthless and annoying, so I'd rather drink out of the cup.
 

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With that logic, can there ever not be 2 holes? Let's say you have a ball and poke a hole into it. Is it 2 holes because the hole is on both the inner and outer of the ball or 1 hole because the ball only has a single hole on the outside that never reaches the other side of the outer part of the ball.
Assuming the ball is hollow… Correct. That’s 4 holes. You had to go through the material twice, therefore it’s four holes. Just because the ball is singularly made of one piece of the same material doesn’t mean it’s just one pass through. You passed through twice, meaning 4 holes.

Assuming the ball is solid, incorrect. It’s two holes. You only made one pass through the solid material, meaning there are only 2 holes.

Also, I agree. The question is absurd. Everyone knows I’m right. /s
 
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This is a perfect example of why people need to agree on the definitions of the words they are using before they try to debate or argue.

If everyone sees the word "hole" and gets a different definition, we were never talking about the same thing in the first place, and that turns an argument or debate into a fight.

Let us define what "hole" means. THEN we can move forward.
 

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