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by kazinator 21 days ago
Ian's knot is not new kind of knot with its own properties; it's a kind of procedure for producing the standard knot. The resulting knot doesn't remember which procedure it came from.
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Sorry, I chose to use the same terminology as the comment I replied to. Should I have started with the explanation you’ve posted, would that make my comment better?