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Topology Explains Why Automobile Sunshades Fold Oddly

Curtis Feist, Ramin Naimi

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Abstract

We use braids and linking number to explain why automobile shades fold into an odd number of loops.

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8 pages, 9 figures
Journal reference
College Mathematics Journal, Vol. 40, No. 2 (Mar 2009), p. 93-98
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Subjects
math.GTGeometric Topology

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    • Probably mathematicians just like to use LaTeX (or TeX? idk the difference). You could download the source in the other formats page[0] and convert it to whatever format you want using pandoc[1]. [0]: https://arxiv.org/format/1205.4797 [1]: https://pandoc.org/

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