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...he should have used was a hole, as in a hole in the ground... He did, I think. Why else would he show an interest in the hollow part of the cup?
by jonsen 8y ago
...he should have used was a hole, as in a hole in the ground...
He did, I think. Why else would he show an interest in the hollow part of the cup?
- lisper 8y ago> He did, I think. Well, he tried, but he did it the mathematically geeky way, not the ordinary-human-speaking-English way (which is my point). No non-mathematician ever actually calls the concave part of a cup a hole. It kinda sorta looks like a hole, but the process by which it is created is different from a proper hole, the kind you create by digging in the ground with a shovel. It also has some saliently different properties. For example, you can touch the "bottom" of the "hole" in a cup on both sides. You can't do that with a hole in the ground.