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Outward-normal-first boundary orientation

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The boundary of an oriented manifold with boundary is oriented by the outward-normal-first convention: an ordered basis (v2​,…,vn​) of Tp​∂X is positive when (v1​,v2​,…,vn​) is positive in Tp​X for an outward-pointing normal v1​.

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