This ancient problem known, in honor of the story, as the Gordian problem-how hard is it to untie a knot?-now has a modern solution. No matter how complex a knot may be, it is possible to estimate, and in some cases calculate exactly, how hard it is to untie. The story of the ...
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Nautical knots are mostly encountered on sail boats and military vessels. They are a collection of knots that are designed to hold under constant tension as well as to be easily adjustable without having to untie the entire knot in order to do so. Usually comprised of multiple smaller knots o...
When it comes tonecktie knots, there are four main types: the four-in-hand, the Pratt, the half Windsor, and the full Windsor. Sure,there are hundreds of different knot styles to choose from, but these are the mainstream basics that every guy should know in order to look his best. Wh...
Maybe the Hanson is relegated to obscurity just because of the Bowline's popularity. It looks to be a variation of a bowstring knot and has a distinctive look when finished. The Hanson Knot is a nifty way to tie a loop, has a distinctive look, does not slip and is easy to untie - ...
is cheap. The emphasis, therefore, is oncompactness and reliabilitywithno interest in being able to untiethem. Many fishing knots employ multiple, tightly wound turns. The structure of such knots changes under load – outer wraps are pulled into the knot and the inner line becomes outer wraps...
Between bear bags, tent guy outs, and tarp lines, setting up camp can involve a lot of tedious knot tying. When you’re tired after a long day of hiking, you don’t want to have to deal with knots that slip or won’t come undone. Loop knots should be simple to tie and untie, ...
Since it is inevitable for lively coils to intertwine, we need to know how to correctly untangle our hair strands. We should master the art of untangling to be able to untie knots without damaging or breaking hair strands. It will take some practice, and a little patience, but once you ...
Pepper, stopping to untie a knot. "Folks who do so never have any candles," she added, sententiously. "How many'd you have, Polly?" asked Joel, curiously, laying down his hammer, and regarding her with the utmost anxiety. "Oh, two hundred!" said Polly, decidedly. "I'd have ...
Interestingly, all of these results are apparently, on average, independent of knot complexity: for the same scale, r0, simple knots untie just as quickly as complicated ones, and lose the same relative amount of helicity and vortex energy (Supplementary Fig. 3). We furthermore note that ...