How many holes does a straw have?

[Joods]

Lol you answered too late. You get no prize, woman.

Beccs gets her prize or Iggy gets the hose again!

Don't you mean a really long, thick and flexible straw?

[BrianSoddingBoru4]

Sometime, really long, thick straws lose quite a lot of their flexibility.

Boru

[robvalue]

An infinite number of holes in 2D planes.

[bennyboy]

I don't see how any answer other than one is correct.

It has one hole, and 2 ends.  Some holes have only one end.

How many holes does a donut have?  One.
A straw is longer, and the edges are thinner, but no one would say a donut has 0 holes.  And no one would say it has 2.

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.

[downbeatplumb]

One continuous hole.

I think that is a great user name. I may change mine.

[BrianSoddingBoru4]

One continuous hole.

I think that is a great user name. I may change mine.

Not a bad name for a band, either.

Boru

[Gawdzilla Sama]

A whole is composted of parts, so in the grand galactic view the paint isn't even dry yet.

[Pat Mustard]

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!

It has infinite holes.

[Aroura]

I don't see how any answer other than one is correct.

It has one hole, and 2 ends.  Some holes have only one end.

How many holes does a donut have?  One.
A straw is longer, and the edges are thinner, but no one would say a donut has 0 holes.  And no one would say it has 2.

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 what you are saying is a donut has the same number of holes in it as say, a tortilla or a muffin, since a donut is fits the same criteria as a straw.

I don't know where you are getting your definition of hole, but:

hole
həʊl/
noun

1. 1.
   a hollow place in a solid body or surface.
   

By your definition though, only a depression is a hole, if it pokes all the way through, it is no longer a hole but simply part of the shape, I guess?  Actually wait, I can still travel along a hole in the ground, so even a depression isn't a hole.  So....holes don't exist?  Because I can always travel along the surface of every hole I can think of to reach any other point.

So black holes are really giant misnomers to you, I suppose.  If I poke through a piece of paper with a pencil it is also not a hole by your definition?  I have simply turned the paper into a new shape!

[Homeless Nutter]

[...]
So black holes are really giant misnomers to you, I suppose. [...]

Black holes ARE a misnomer. They are enormous celestial bodies with great mass and density, surrounded by empty space - that doesn't fit any definition of a "hole" I can think of.