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What is an order of a shape?

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Anonymous

12y ago
Updated: 8/20/2019

Think of a shape being made of putty. You are allowed to flatten it or make corners but you cannot create or remove any holes. In this context, a sphere and a cube are the same - you can make a sphere into a cube by flattening some faces. But a sphere cannot be re-moulded into a torus (doughnut).

This is topology and the order of a shape is the number of "holes" in it.

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12y ago

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