An Appel a day

Here’s a neat picture of a torus:

But do you know what’s even cooler about it?   Just flip it over:

What you get is a subdivision of the torus into seven regions, each of which overlaps the other six.   In other words, the Four Coloring Theorem does not hold for a torus; instead, seven colors suffice.

Neat.

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