Start with a polygonal schema whose outer boundary has sides, and remove a triangular disc strictly inside its polygon. Cut the resulting annulus along an arc from an outer vertex to an inner vertex. The cut space is a closed disc with marked sides: the original outer sides, two banks of the cut, and three inner sides. Parametrize it by a convex polygon with that many sides. A boundary homeomorphism carrying the marked vertices in cyclic order extends over the disc by radial extension after identifying both discs with a standard closed disc.
Transport the original side identifications to this polygon and identify the two cut banks, leaving the three inner sides unpaired. The quotient space is the original surface with an open triangular disc removed. In boundary-word notation, if is the original word, the new word is , with unpaired. The torus has ; a square model of the real projective plane has , pairing antipodal points of the square's boundary.

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