• prime_number_314159@lemmy.world
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    2 hours ago

    To settle on an answer, we need a sufficiently precise definition for both “door” and “wheel”.

    I’m going to argue from the definition that a door as a manmade object intended to allow the passage of a person from inside an enclosed region to outside of an enclosed region, or vice versa.

    Similarly, I’m going with a wheel being a manmade object intended to support the weight of an object attached to, or resting upon it, and designed to smoothly rotate to allow the attached object to move.

    Because I have allowed for very small wheels, while requiring doors to be pretty large, I suspect wheels are more numerous. Ball bearings are probably the most common wheel, and there are at least 2,000 of them in my house, plausibly enough to outnumber the doors on my house, my car, and every house and car in my neighborhood.

    • titanicx@lemmy.zip
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      18 minutes ago

      I think you have to increase the amount of doors that you have accounted for. Simply because a door can also mean something like a dollhouse has a door in it you can’t argue that that’s not a door you could argue tons of model cars and Lego vehicles and everything else like that also outdoors in them they are not large enough for a full size person however they are small enough for a man-made percentage to then cross through. So I think you have to widely increase the amount of doors. However I still believe that the amount of doors do not outnumber the amount of wheels overall.