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What is torsion in differential geometry intuitively?

Torsion is easy to understand but this knowledge seems to be lost. … The picture is faithful if $M$ is an affine space iff both torsion and curvature vanish (Cartan's structural equations for affine space). I think torsion is beautiful :) …
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