Square Knot

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This Square Knot has trigonometric coordinate functions. One can see a pair of mirror symmetric trefoil knots which are opened and combined to a larger knot. This construction is called a knot sum. Knots which are not sums of simpler knots are called prime knots.
coordinate functions.