a knot is a nautical mile per hour
this post was submitted on 24 Apr 2026
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But it isn't an abbreviation. It's from how many knots would pass through one's hands in a prescribed time from the speed measuring float and rope
Historically a minute (of longitude at the equator) per hour.
Show me your Reidemeister moves.
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oh thank god i thought i was the only brainrotted person here
that's a weird assumption given we're on lemmy
There are dozens of us!
That's knot practice
Applied Knot Theory.
I cannot knot.
Who's there?
Oh man, my Topology teacher was way into knot theory, I think that was his research topic. So much so that he would go on long tirades about it in his classes. Great for those of us in his Topology classes, not so much for his Linear Algebra classes.
Pepperdine?
Nah, but I love that you had one too.
Really, though, it's surprising how many other fields knot theory shows up in.
where's the canids? i see no canids in the image
We only see their upper half...