The reason Pringles fit so nicely in a cylindrical tube is because they're hyperbolic paraboloids plotted over a circular domainpic.twitter.com/BUzjPw7e17
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And the reason why my hand doesn’t fit so nicely in the pringles’ cylindrical tube is that human hands are just too darn big for those skinny tubes
because the smallest circular cross section that bounds the width of ur hand is bigger than that of the tube
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"HULK SMASH!" Problem solved.
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It is so, that you could grab the tube with one hand, and not drop it by accident, if the tube were too wide.https://twitter.com/Epistemhumility/status/1229878629099802624 …
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