From a mathematical point of view: one.
If you describe the straw as a cylinder (i.e. the cartesian product between a circle and a segment) you can contract the cylinder to the circle, which has genus 1, i.e. one hole.
Re the molecular-level billions of holes, my answer would be "persistent homology", which basically allows to talk about holes at different resolutions in a mathematically sound way. Having only one hole is, in this framework, a persistent feature of the straw because you have to zoom *a lot* before seeing any other hole
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Technically one. I'm too busy playing Dmc3 rn to explain tho
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Does a straw have one hole, or two?
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Are zebras white with black stripes or black with white stripes?
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Black with white stripes 100%
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Both are true🤣
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Depends on how you want to look at this problem. Molecularly, there are billions of holes.
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An infinite number of holes between two points.
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Lol
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One hole.
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From a mathematical point of view: one. If you describe the straw as a cylinder (i.e. the cartesian product between a circle and a segment) you can contract the cylinder to the circle, which has genus 1, i.e. one hole. Re the molecular-level billions of holes, my answer would be "persistent homology", which basically allows to talk about holes at different resolutions in a mathematically sound way. Having only one hole is, in this framework, a persistent feature of the straw because you have to zoom *a lot* before seeing any other hole
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Technically one. I'm too busy playing Dmc3 rn to explain tho
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