I was walking along the road one day when I spied a cord of some sort lying in my path. From my vantage point, as I was approaching the cord, I could not tell if it was knotted or not.

What is the probability that the cord was knotted?

(In reply to re(2): As I figure it by Richard)

In mathematics, a knot is defined as a closed, non-self-intersecting curve that is embedded in three dimensions and cannot be untangled to produce a simple loop.

Courtesy of http://mathworld.wolfram.com/Knot.html

Posted by Brian Smith on 2005-08-05 01:27:02