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A Tangle

A problem from the October 1960 issue of Eureka, the journal of the Cambridge University Mathematical Society:

Which of the following knots are knotted and which not?

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(a) Not knot, (b) Knot, (c) Knot, (d) Not knot.

November 11, 2023November 10, 2023 | Puzzles

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