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  3. Canton, 13617, NY, USA

    Jeff Weeks

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Hoste, J., Thistlethwaite, M. & Weeks, J. The first 1,701,936 knots. The Mathematical Intelligencer 20, 33–48 (1998). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF03025227

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