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Orientability
Intuitively, a surface S in the Euclidean space R3 is non-orientable, if a figure such as the figure can be moved around the surface and back to where it started so that it looks like , its mirror image. (This figure was chosen because it cannot be continuously moved to its mirror-image within a plane).
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