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From: anand@vax1.acs.udel.EDU (Anand Iyengar)
Newsgroups: sci.electronics
Subject: Re: WHat are those holes for?
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Date: 19 Jul 88 17:23:14 GMT
References: <10790@oberon.USC.EDU> <327@richp1.UUCP> <303@btree.uucp>
Reply-To: anand@vax1.acs.udel.EDU (Anand Iyengar)
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In article <303@btree.uucp> rfarris@btree.UCSD.EDU (rick farris) writes:
>Yes, and why the heck are manholes round?
	So that they can't fall into man-holes.  Think about it: putting a
disk through a (non-deformable) circular openning of smaller diameter...
Square cover's, on the other hand, can be turned vertical and rotated 45
degrees and dropped into the corresponding openning (rectangles, similarly).

							Anand.