99% of People Are Wrong: How Many Holes Does This Shirt Really Have?

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This is where the puzzle becomes interesting.

Why “Hole” Is More Complicated Than It Sounds

The word hole does not have one universally accepted mathematical definition in everyday language.

A hole can be:

An opening through a material

A cavity

A gap

A puncture

A passage

A tear

If you punch a pencil through a sheet of paper, you might say the paper has one hole.

But if the paper is folded, the situation becomes more complicated.

Suppose you fold a sheet in half and punch