Minimal triangulation of Klein bottle

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What is minimal triangulation of Klein bottle? А triangulation is a subdivision of a geometric object into simplices. Minimal in sense of vertex count.

So, I know that minimal count of vertex in the shortest triangulation must be greater then $7$, because the shortest triangulation of torus consist of $7$ vertex and Euler characteristic is equal to $0$.

I would be cool if you can show me the picture.

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The Klein bottle can be seen as the square $I^2$ with the boundaries identified in a specific way. Thus some triangulations of the square induces a triangulation of the Klein bottle. In particular you have a triangulation with exactly two faces, three edges and one vertex induced by the triangulation of the square obtained by cutting along the diagonal.