If two closed loops are joined in a link, can they be pulled apart without tearing? In the 1800s, Carl Friedrich Gauss developed a precise mathematical test for determining when it’s possible.

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This is the only pattern of its kind.

Proof:
Brute force?

Source

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Set theoretic definition of natural numbers

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