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I have never learned how to tie a single one even though I went to a Catholic high school for 2 years that required a tie and jacket. I didn't wear a clip on but had my dad tie them and just loosened them enough to slip them on and off as needed. The same thing when I was in the Navy during the 80's and the neckerchief that was worn whenever I had to wear the Dress Blues or Whites.I know 3
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Mikael Vejdemo-Johansson, a mathematician in Stockholm, recently led a small team on a quest to discern how many tie knots are possible. Their results, uploaded to arXiv, say there are 177,147 different ways to tie the knot of a necktie.
That is 177,062 more ways than were found in 1999 by Cambridge mathematicians Yong Mao and Thomas Fink, who arrived at 85 possible ways to tie a tie……..
