The volume of a sugar loaf

Abstract

The shape of a geometrical body is described its volume being half of that of a circumscribed cylinder and larger than an inscribed cone. It is rotationally symmetrical and its shape reminds to a sugar loaf. While the contour of a cone jacket is a straight line, the contour of the sugar loaf follows a line similar to a parabola, just with an exponent slightly below 2. The value used here is 1.780 776 41.