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Nature 398, 31-32 (4 March 1999) | doi:10.1038/17938;

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Designing tie knots by random walks

The simplest of conventional tie knots, the four-in-hand, has its origins in late-nineteenth-century England. The Duke of Windsor, as King Edward VIII became after abdicating in 1936, is credited with introducing what is now known as the Windsor knot, from which its smaller derivative, the half-Windsor, evolved.

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