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We talked about how essential it is to make sure that you can distinguish overs-and-unders: we need to know which strand is above, and which is below, every time there is a crossing.
There are two more knots we need to be able to draw. Then we'll talk about how to decide today'sQuestion of the Day:
Type I | Type II | Type III |
Reidemeister Move I is tricolorable. | Reidemeister Move II is tricolorable. | Reidemeister Move III is tricolorable. |
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Links can be tricolorable, too -- for example, the unlink is tricolorable! (That's just two circles, one lying on top of the other, as in Borromean rings.)