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Let the stick number of a Knot
be the least number of straight sticks needed to make a Knot
.
The smallest stick number of any Knot is
, where
is the Trefoil Knot. If
and
are
Knots, then
See also Crossing Number (Link), Triangle Counting
References
Adams, C. C. The Knot Book: An Elementary Introduction to the Mathematical Theory of Knots. New York:
W. H. Freeman, pp. 27-30, 1994.