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It is known that the trefoil knot K31 has stick number 6; see the image below.

Learn Tally Marks. Before numbers were invented people found it difficult to keep records of their belongings and hence they used to do counting by sticks which are further known as tally marks. Tally marks, or hash marks, are a form of the unary numeral system used for counting.

The trefoil knot (drawn as a stick knot to the right) has a stick number of 6, meaning we need at least 6 sticks to form the trefoil. (In fact, the trefoil knot is the only knot with a stick number of 6.) An interesting fact for you to study is that no nontrivial knot can be formed by less than 6 sticks.

Bundled sticks are used to represent or model a number using place value. Hundreds Tens Ones The value of each large bundle is 100 because a large bundle is composed of 10 bundles of 10 sticks or 100 single sticks. The value of each small bundle is 10 because a small bundle is composed of 10 single sticks.

Thus, checking the cases for 3, 4, and 5 sticks, we realize that the smallest number of stick we need to make a nontrivial knot with sticks is at least 6 sticks. For example, with 6 sticks we can construct a trefoil, as it is shown below.

Crossing number may refer to: Crossing number (knot theory) of a knot is the minimal number of crossings in any knot diagram for the knot. The average crossing number is a variant of crossing number obtained from a three-dimensional embedding of a knot by averaging over all two-dimensional projections.

Every knot has a description as a polygon, determined by a finite sequence of vertices in three-space and formed by joining successive vertices by line segments. The stick number of a knot is the minimum number of vertices in such a polygonal description of the knot.