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> Take a simple bottle of milk like the ones pictured here, with a cylindrical section below a tapering segment. Those bottles are rectangular!
by twic 6y ago
> Take a simple bottle of milk like the ones pictured here, with a cylindrical section below a tapering segment.
Those bottles are rectangular!
- leephillips 6y agoThey are rectangular cylinders. The shape works for the problem under discussion.
- wodenokoto 6y agoI thought you where making up words, saying “rectangular cylinder”, but apparently it’s a thing: https://www.quora.com/Geometry-What-is-a-rectangular-cylinder https://www.quora.com/Geometry-What-is-a-rectangular-cylinde...
- leephillips 6y agoA cylinder can have any cross section.