stackyFACTSIf you ever needed proof that calculus is basically dark magic, this shape is it. You could theoretically fill the entire inside of this infinitely long trumpet with a single bucket of paint, but you could never mathematically paint its outside. It converges perfectly on volume but diverges endlessly on surface area.
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