For a finite CW complex with vertices, edges and faces,
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This Euler characteristic is unchanged by subdividing an edge, which adds one vertex and one edge, or subdividing a face by an edge, which adds one edge and one face. Common refinements therefore give the same value for different subdivisions of the same surface.

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