The exact result depends on the exact ratio of length to diameter; but in principle, with a cylinder you need less surface area - and thus less material - for the same volume.
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Rectangular prisms are efficient shapes for packing into boxes from shipping.
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The 3D shapes that have at least one square face are known as prisms. Prisms are polyhedrons with two parallel and congruent faces called bases, and lateral faces that are parallelograms. When one of the bases of a prism is a square, it is called a square prism. Other examples of prisms with a square face include rectangular prisms and cube-shaped prisms.
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