In knot theory, the cinquefoil knot, also known as Solomon's seal knot or the pentafoil knot, is one of only two knots with crossing number five, the other being the three-twist knot. It is catalogued as knot 5-1 in the Alexander-Briggs notation and can also be described as a (5,2)-torus knot. The cinquefoil is the closed, knotted form produced by joining the ends of a double overhand knot. This description is adapted from Wikipedia contributors under CC BY-SA 4.0; changes were made. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/
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In knot theory, the cinquefoil knot, also known as Solomon's seal knot or the pentafoil knot, is one of two knots with crossing number five, the other being the three-twist knot.
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In knot theory, the cinquefoil knot, also known as Solomon's seal knot or the pentafoil knot, is one of two knots with crossing nu
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