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Some knots are the same as their mirror images. Consider the Figure-8 knot
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The two rotations about perpendicular axes could be combined into a rotation about a single axis.
Another achiral knot is 83.
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As for the Figure-8 knot, the two rotations about perpendicular axes could be combined into a rotation about a single axis.
Go back to Mathematical knots.
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Copyright © 1998 by Robert G. Scharein
