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I read about this once and thought "cool" but now I can't remember the name, and I'm probably not even going to describe it properly. Can someone please guess what I mean and tell me?

If you get a strip of paper and give it one twist and then join the two ends, the surface of the strip becomes one-sided in the sense that if you run your finger along it you never ever come to an end or have to bump over an edge.
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Legend! Thank you
 

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I just did it.

If you cut the mobius strip lengthways, you end up with just one loop. It's like another mobius, but with two twists instead of one.
 

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Great link and I liked the limerick!
 

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OK, I've cut again the one from yesterday, and ended up with two loops of the same length, twisted together. Not the same result as the site suggests I should have.

Mysterious.
 

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I'm not expert enough to question your cutting skills ;) Maybe you've discovered something new, but if we name it after you it sounds like a tautology - Electric Avenue Strip
 
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