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"Curved spaces are nowhere locally Euclidean."

The sphere is definitely locally Euclidean: puncture a sphere and you can flatten it to form a subset of the plane.

An example of a nowhere locally Euclidean space would be (I believe) the Cantor set. So is any countable product of the discrete space.

[I stand corrected. I've been away from this stuff for too long. -Raymond]

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