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Why are pencils hexagonal?


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roundness != easier to fall

 

the chicken egg for example is designed so that it would swirve in a circle, the reason that its circular and not hexagonal is to faciliate birth.

 

of course non of YOU have to give birth to a pencil

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roundness != easier to fall

 

the chicken egg for example is designed so that it would swirve in a circle' date=' the reason that its circular and not hexagonal is to faciliate birth.

 

of course non of YOU have to give birth to a pencil[/quote']

 

In that case roundness does not equal easier to fall but a round pencil isn't really designed to swivel round in a circle.. Theres not much point to designing it circular to faciliate birth either so thats another reason to not have round pencils.

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Pencil's that have flat sides are easier to shave with a safety scissor

 

Classic.

 

I think it's a homage to bees. Here I'd like to mention that Kansas was the first state to name the honey bee as the state insect (1976, I think).

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I [/i']was only joking. My answer wasn't meant to be taken seriously :mad:

 

 

its one of the better ones...

 

aside from getting more pencils out of the same block of wood its the most likely.

 

(i know that hexagonal pencils will still roll off a desk if you face it toward the slope. but a round pencil will roll off even if you have it very close to perpendicular to the slope.)

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How about this one...

 

The National Comittee for Prevention of Cruelty towards Trees initially banned pencils. But then they realised that due to this there would be s shortage of pens and such which would lead to a price hike and the poor people won't be able to pay for it...

So they passed the bill to get maximum efficiency from a single log of wood.

Hence the Hex pencils

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