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CHAPTER 13

TRAMBLES

Geoffrey Budworth

We may not have too long to wait
before ... knots quit the academic
backwater they have occupied since
Victoria's reign, and take a place in
the mainstream of scientific devel-
opment.
Desmond Mandeville, 1910-1992

Introduction
I expect you have come across the pastime in which a word is changed, one
letter at a time, into another totally different word. For example:
REEF
REED
SEED
SHED
SHOD
SHOT
SNOT
KNOT
In much the same way trambling is altering a real knot, one tuck at a time,
to yield a series of related knots. We call these changes tuck-transformations.

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