Re:Conway notation
by Firerouge on Sunday April 01, 2018 @03:34AM
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It wasn't entirely clear from the wiki page, but can this notation be used to describe every type of tangled shape, including those such as the twisted proteins folding@home attempts to untangle?
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My understanding of knot theory is pretty limited, but very few proteins are topologically different from a straight line—while there are lots of wiggles back and forth, if you pulled really hard on the ends, you would in most cases have no knots in it.