... portholes on a ship are round?
The constant up-and-down motion of a ship puts considerable stress on the ship's skin, or
outer covering. If portholes were designed with angles, this stress would tend to concentrate at those
points and perhaps crack the skin. With round portholes such stress is evenly distributed around the
holes, making it less likely for such cracks to occur.
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