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Unknot (en.wikipedia.org)

submitted 2 months ago by TheTechnician27@lemmy.world to c/wikipedia@lemmy.world

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[–] kogasa@programming.dev 2 points 2 months ago (1 children)

The unknot is like the knot-theoretic equivalent of 1. Not the most exciting number but hardly useless.

[–] TheTechnician27@lemmy.world 1 points 2 months ago

My very limited understanding of knot theory tells me it should be more like the knot-theoretic equivalent if 0, as it's the additive identity.