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An exotic sphere is a differentiable manifold that is homeomorphic but not diffeomorphic to the standard \( n \)-dimensional sphere \( S^n \) in Euclidean space. This means that while two spaces may have the same topological structure (they can be continuously deformed into each other without tearing or gluing), they have different smooth structures (the way we can differentiate functions on them).