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A continuous function between two topological spaces that are each weakly homotopy equivalent to the circle is, up to homotopy, defined by how much it “winds” one circle around the other. This is its winding number, an integer. Equivalently this is the element in the fundamental group of the codomain which is represented by the map.
A special case of the degree of a continuous function.
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