Examples
Many useful practical knots are actually the unknot, including all knots which can be tied in the bight. Other noteworthy unknots are those that consist of rigid line segments connected by universal joints at their endpoints (linkages), that yet cannot be reconfigured into a convex polygon, thus acquiring the name stuck unknots.
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