: a one-sided surface that is formed by passing the narrow end of a tapered tube through the side of the tube and flaring this end out to join the other end
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Real life Klein bottle representations highlight the awkward corners to try to party with your Ramsey clique.
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Caroline Delbert, Popular Mechanics, 2 May 2023
Plot the blocks as points on a graph with nine dimensions, one for the value of how dark each pixel is, and a shape emerges that looks like a Klein bottle.
—Devin Powell, Discover Magazine, 20 Mar. 2019
The implication is that, in some strange sense, the outside of a black hole was the same as the inside, like a Klein bottle that has only one side.
—Dennis Overbye, New York Times, 10 Oct. 2022
One of the strangest, first described in 1882, may be the Klein bottle.
—Devin Powell, Discover Magazine, 20 Mar. 2019
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Caroline Delbert, Popular Mechanics, 2 May 2023
Plot the blocks as points on a graph with nine dimensions, one for the value of how dark each pixel is, and a shape emerges that looks like a Klein bottle.
—Devin Powell, Discover Magazine, 20 Mar. 2019
The implication is that, in some strange sense, the outside of a black hole was the same as the inside, like a Klein bottle that has only one side.
—Dennis Overbye, New York Times, 10 Oct. 2022
One of the strangest, first described in 1882, may be the Klein bottle.
—Devin Powell, Discover Magazine, 20 Mar. 2019
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“Klein bottle.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/Klein%20bottle. Accessed 15 Dec. 2024.
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