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The span of an unoriented Link diagram (also called the Spread) is the difference between the
highest and lowest degrees of its Bracket Polynomial. The span is a topological invariant of a knot. If a Knot
has a reduced alternating projection of
crossings, then the span of
is
.
See also Link