> Good point! I guess it's not different to the equator on the surface of a sphere... so yes, a straight line "encloses" half of the plane "inside" it, so it ha

> Good point! I guess it's not different to the equator on the surface of a sphere... so yes, a straight line "encloses" half of the plane "inside" it, so it has a hole. My topology is rusty, but I do not think that a line in the plane is equivalent to an equator of a sphere because a plane is not equivalent to a sphere in a topological sense, and neither is a line equivalent to a circle. There is no homeomorphism (structure preserving bijective function) between either pairs of spaces. There is a standard way to augment the plane/line to make it equivalent to a sphere/circle called the "1-point compactification"[1], but since it requires adding an extra point "at infinity", the augmented space is not the same as the original. So no, a straight line doesn't have a "hole" in the topological sense. The 1-point compactification of it does though. 1: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexandroff_extension https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexandroff_extension