What’s special about the bands in the picture below?
(picture courtesy of Cliff Pickover & Teja Krasek)
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I don’t know the name for them exactly, but they’re those ‘inifinte loops’ or whatever. There’s not really 2 separate surfaces as in a normal band, instead it is one surface that is continual. I don’t know quite how else to explain it!
they’re moebius bands. you twist one end and join the two ends together.
Yeah, the only way I can explain it is that each band has half a twist.
Mobius strips also have only 1 edge