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Chris -- 2025-05-10
Google counts on Nov. 13, 2006
1,330,000 “Gordian knot”
154 “Cordian knot”
A “Gordian knot” is a very tough and apparently insolvable problem. A knot made out of a cord must be a “cordian knot.”
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badly as a Cordian knot. We eventually. resolved the problem of the intermingling of. states by introducing the parameter …
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