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Gabriel's Horn

Gabriel's Horn (also called Torricelli's trumpet) isfigure invented by Evangelista Torricelli which has infinite surface area, but finite volume. Attimewas discovered (predating calculus), this was consideredparadox.

Gabriel's hornformed by takinggraphy = 1/x, withrange x ≥ 1 (avoidingasymptote at x = 0), rotatingin three dimensions aboutx axis.

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