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right|frame|Stereographic projection of the duocylinder's ridge (see below), as a [[flat torus. The ridge is rotating about the -plane.]]

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  • Geometry
  • Bounding 3-manifolds
  • The ridge
  • Projections
  • Relation to other shapes
  • See also
  • References
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right|frame|Stereographic projection of the duocylinder's ridge (see below), as a [[flat torus. The ridge is rotating about the -plane.]]

The duocylinder, also called the double cylinder or the bidisc, is a geometric object embedded in 4-dimensional Euclidean space, defined as the Cartesian product of two disks of respective radii r1 and r2:D = \left\{ (x,y,z,w) \, \left| \, x^2+y^2\leq r_1^2,\ z^2+w^2\leq r_2^2 \right. \right\}

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