Everyone says \(S^2\) “needs” \(\mathbb{R}^3\) for embedding.
But if the metric, not the coordinate count, carries curvature — what are we *actually* embedding?

A small note on why \(S^2 \subset \mathbb{R}^2\) may be more precise than it sounds.
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