# IGKT on Wiki encyclopedia

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**Author:** ![Dan\_Lehman](https://discourse.igkt.net/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/d/7ba0ec/32.png) [@Dan\_Lehman](https://discourse.igkt.net/u/Dan_Lehman)\
**Post date:** [20 November 2007 17:14 UTC](https://discourse.igkt.net/t/igkt-on-wiki-encyclopedia/2921/3 "2007-11-20T17:14:00Z")

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> I cringed when I read the reference to "2000 different knots". I can see Dan Lehman rolling on the carpet laughing hysterically at these figures...

Not so fast: the difference between the usual blind assertion of “over 3,000” or such  
and “2000” is nearly double; it implies that some effort to count was made, as opposed  
to looking at the last image-reference # “3854” only. And if DFred is involved, the count  
deserves careful consideration. One will get sizeable counts of “multi-strand knots”  
and “button knots”; but 2,000 is still a lot (and might include splices). To the general  
reader, it comes off as “a wayyyy lot”, and that’s fairly accurate; it is perhaps most  
misleading in suggesting that one will find any knot of practical use, as there are  
some common knots NOT included. (Charles Warner’s smaller book has around  
500 knots in it, I believe–not sure how many might depend on distinctions of use  
for a similar structure.)

As some separate thread, reporting on a background task, we might endeavor  
to arrive at a real count by enumerating the particular knots in [i][u][ABOK](https://discourse.igkt.net/t/9845),  
w/some focusing on the practical, others on the decorative (incl. sennits etc.).

# –dl\*

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