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Re:Alternative interpretations of classical physics (2019) by twic on Tuesday March 23, 2021 @08:46AM (#26554352)
> Take a simple bottle of milk like the ones pictured here, with a cylindrical section below a tapering segment.

Those bottles are rectangular!

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Re:Alternative interpretations of classical physics (2019) by leephillips on Tuesday March 23, 2021 @08:53AM (#26554407)
They are rectangular cylinders. The shape works for the problem under discussion.
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Re:Alternative interpretations of classical physics (2019) by wodenokoto on Tuesday March 23, 2021 @09:07AM (#26554508)
I thought you where making up words, saying “rectangular cylinder”, but apparently it’s a thing:

https://www.quora.com/Geometry-What-is-a-rectangular-cylinde...

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Re:Alternative interpretations of classical physics (2019) by leephillips on Tuesday March 23, 2021 @09:22AM (#26554634)
A cylinder can have any cross section.
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