A cylinder looks like a can, while a prism looks like a row of Doritos.
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A cylinder has a circular cross section, a square prism has a square cross section.
A cylinder has a circle as a base, while a prism has either a triangle (most common) or a rectangle as a base.
Technically, a cylinder is a prism, as it has a fixed shape at the end.
There is no difference in the sense that the volume for either is the length times the area of cross-section.
A triangular prism has triangles as its bases...a cylinder has circles as its bases.no one fricken cares