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- Japanese · calque of和田の湖
- English todaylake of Wada
Calque of Japanese 和田の湖. Introduced by Kunizo Yoneyama (in 1917), who credited the discovery to Takeo Wada.
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lake of Wada
Today it means: Any of three disjoint connected open sets of the plane or open unit square with the counterintuitive property that they all have the same boundary. Full definition →
Japanese 和田の湖