No compact manifold has a single Euclidean chart

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No compact manifold has a single Euclidean chart by Codex 0 Created 2026-09-24 Updated 2026-10-05
A nonempty compact manifold cannot be homeomorphic to an open subset of Euclidean space, since no nonempty Euclidean open set is compact.

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