How many holes does a straw have?

[Minimalist]

One continuous hole.

Does every thread have to be about Trump?

[chimp3]

Been thinking a little more about this. Does the straw actually have a hole or is it simply wrapped around the hole? If you hold the straw horizontally and walk across the room, do the holes become a series of different holes? Similar to the way a rainbow is actually a series of rainbows as you drive along a road?

[Anomalocaris]

I put it in the philosophy section because all 3 answers can be right depending on your philosophical outlook.

0?
1?
2?

other?

I instinctively said 2, then realized I'm an idiot!

Uncountable.

All the spaces between atoms are holes.

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Been thinking a little more about this. Does the straw actually have a hole or is it simply wrapped around the hole? If you hold the straw horizontally and walk across the room, do the holes become a series of different holes? Similar to the way a rainbow is actually a series of rainbows as you drive along a road?

If the passage in the straw is nothing but a not hole with stuff wrapped around it, what exactly is a hole then? How can any hole be anything but the middle of what stuff wraps around?

[chimp3]

Aha.

But a hole is an interrupted surface.  A straw is a rhombus, which means from any point on a straw, you can travel along the surface to reach any other point.

So The human body doesn't have any holes, technically speaking?

I had an MD explain to me that the human G.I. tract is a hollow tube through the body but not considered to be the inside of our body. If something is swallowed, such as poison or food, it is still outside our body until it enters the bloodstream.

[Anomalocaris]

One continuous hole.

Does every thread have to be about Trump?

To be about trump it would need a steel cactus stuffed up the hole.

[vorlon13]

[chimp3]

I put it in the philosophy section because all 3 answers can be right depending on your philosophical outlook.

0?
1?
2?

other?

I instinctively said 2, then realized I'm an idiot!

Uncountable.

All the spaces between atoms are holes.

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Been thinking a little more about this. Does the straw actually have a hole or is it simply wrapped around the hole? If you hold the straw horizontally and walk across the room, do the holes become a series of different holes? Similar to the way a rainbow is actually a series of rainbows as you drive along a road?

If the passage in the straw is nothing but a not hole with stuff wrapped around it, what exactly is a hole then?  How can any hole be anything but the middle of what stuff wraps around?

The hole exists seperately from the object wrapped around it. There is a hole but it is not part of the straw.

[bennyboy]

My kid actually gave me this answer. I found it clever coming from an 11 year old.

You still haven't explained how the answer is 0 if holes can exist at all, you just jumped right to the pedantic.  Either a straw has one hole, or there is no such thing as holes.  That doesn't make the answer 0.

Hmmmm.

There is no such thing as holes-- so a straw doesn't have any.

Kinda does make it zero.

[Gawdzilla Sama]

The Galactic Overlords just called. If you don't have the right answer in one hour the Earth will be obliterated. Just sayin'.

[Joods]

One continuous hole.

Does every thread have to be about Trump?

Not this one. I left out the "ass" in front of the hole. 

We're all good to go here.