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Carl-E:

--- Quote from: Redball on 26 Feb 2013, 15:00 ---(Sigh)

*Rummages around in Wikipedia, looking for topicological knot names.*

--- End quote ---

Topological.  That might help you find some...

Also, not many of them have names.  There's the trefoil, the figure eight, torus knots of various twists, slice knots, ribbon knots, chiral and amphichiral knots, and the un-knot (an untangled circle). 

Rather than names, there are a few numbering systems - the most common uses the number of crossings and an index, such as in the table below;



These are all (unique, up to reflection) knots of 9 crossings or less.  31, 51, 71 and 91 are all torus knots as is 818 because they could be drawn on the surface of a donut (a torus). 

My research was into slice knots, but explaining that takes the 4th dimension...

jwhouk:
That's knot funny.

Carl-E:
Kept me in stiches...

Skewbrow:

--- Quote from: Redball on 26 Feb 2013, 15:00 ---(Sigh)

*Rummages around in Wikipedia, looking for topicological knot names.*

--- End quote ---

Don't tempt Carl-E, he's a topologist. Keeping up with the Jones' polynomial.



Too late.

DSL:
Judge knot.

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