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Torricelli’s trumpet
Torricelli’s trumpet is a fictional infinitely long solid of revolution formed when the closed domain
rotates about the -axis. It has a finite volume, volume units, but the area of its surface is infinite; in fact even the area of is infinite, i.e., the improper integral is not convergent.
Torricelli’s trumpet is surprising since it can be filled by a finite amount of paint, but this paint can never suffice for painting its surface, no matter how thin a coat of paint is used!
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26A42 Integrals of Riemann, Stieltjes and Lebesgue type26A36 Antidifferentiation
57M20 Two-dimensional complexes
51M04 Elementary problems in Euclidean geometries
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