Wednesday, October 14, 2015

Why the shape of pencil is 6-sided

There are science even in the little things of our life. Some time it just surprises us. Pencil is one of the most common things we have used in our life. But we never thought that why most of the pencil has 6 sides. Is there any reason for which the pencil has 6 sides ? Or it is just a tradition for which it has 6 sides?
If you don't think in the way I am thinking you may tell me that I have gone mad and just killing your time with some joke. But believe me there is a big fact for the production companies. If the production companies make the pencil 6 sided they cam use the most of the wood they uses. For understanding this fact hold 5 or 6 pencil together and look these from the upper side. You will find no gaps. So in the production of pencil there will be no wastage of wood and they can use the most of the woods for which their profit will be more. Though pencil can be triangle or squire with the best use of wood. But if you think with your common sense you can understand that the triangle or squire pencil would be so hard to use. The pencil which is triangle or squire will make your hand writing more bad.You can tell me that you have seen circle pencil which is not so hard to use. I agree to you. So, there is a another option for the production companies is that they can make pencil which will be circle in shape. But note that, you can make about 60 pieces of circle pencil using a piece of wood where you can made about 90 pieces of 6-sided pencil. So what will you do as a production company head. This is why most of the pencil are 6-sided so that the companies can earn more.

picture of pencils

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