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Bleiler, S.A. (1985). Prime tangles and composite knots. In: Rolfsen, D. (eds) Knot Theory and Manifolds. Lecture Notes in Mathematics, vol 1144. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/BFb0075008
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