How do you get the Klein Bottle from two Möbius Strips?

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The discussion centers on the construction of a Klein bottle using two Möbius strips. Participants clarify that the process involves gluing the edges of a single Möbius band rather than two separate strips. The Klein bottle's properties and visual representations are referenced through links to Wikipedia, specifically the sections on the Klein bottle and the Mayer–Vietoris sequence. This highlights the mathematical relationship between these shapes and their topological significance.

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...as in the little poem

A mathematician named Klein
Thought the Möbius band was divine.
Said he: "If you glue
The edges of two,
You'll get a weird bottle like mine.

That can be found in the wiki page about the Klein bottle: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Klein_bottle#Properties.

I don't get it.
 
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quasar987 said:
...as in the little poem

A mathematician named Klein
Thought the Möbius band was divine.
Said he: "If you glue
The edges of two,
You'll get a weird bottle like mine.

That can be found in the wiki page about the Klein bottle: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Klein_bottle#Properties.

I don't get it.
That's NOT two Möbius bands. That is gluing the edges of one Möbius band together.
 

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