Stick number

Stick number

In the mathematical theory of knots, the stick number is a knot invariant which intuitively gives the smallest number of straight "sticks" stuck end to end needed to form a knot. Specifically, given any knot "K", the stick number of "K" is the smallest number of edges of a polygonal path equivalent to "K".

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