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Re:Even Been to This Free London Yew Maze? by Shared404 on Sunday August 20, 2023 @01:00PM (#37200940)
The left hand rule assumes that the end is on the same "cycle" as the entrance:

   --E--
  |     |
  |     |
   --S--
if the end is instead on a different "cycle", it won't work:

   -------
  |       |
  | -- -- |
  ||     ||
  ||  E  ||
  | ----- |
  |       |
   ---S---
Hopefully this makes sense. I'm sure there's a propper phrasing of this in topology, but I don't know it.
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Re:Even Been to This Free London Yew Maze? by kfixjviv on Sunday August 20, 2023 @05:49PM (#37203232)
"Multiply connected" is the topological term used in the English-language literature on mazes.
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