File:Overhand-folded-ribbon-pentagon.svg

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If a flat ribbon or strip is tightly folded into a simple overhand knot of practical knot-tying, it assumes a regular pentagonal shape.

Here a ribbon which is green on one side and blue on the other is shown folded in this way. Non-overlapped hidden edges are shown by dotted lines of the appropriate color (except that the middle of one line has been removed where it would confusingly intersect the other hidden-edge lines if shown).

If the two loose ends are joined, this becomes a trefoil knot of mathematical knot theory.
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current06:31, 9 December 2012Thumbnail for version as of 06:31, 9 December 2012800 × 495 (1 KB)AnonMooseliminate minor annoying kink at top, slight margin readjustment
13:16, 1 July 2010Thumbnail for version as of 13:16, 1 July 2010800 × 498 (2 KB)AnonMoosadding partial line
21:59, 29 June 2010Thumbnail for version as of 21:59, 29 June 2010800 × 498 (1 KB)AnonMoosIf a flat ribbon or strip is tightly folded into a simple overhand knot of practical knot-tying, it assumes a regular pentagonal shape. Here a ribbon which is green on one side and blue on the other is shown folded in this way. Non-overlapped hidden edge
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