S_20_d985_Z2_chiral

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An open knot — it matches no entry in the public knot tables (KnotInfo, and Burton’s complete census of prime knots through 19 crossings), and it is not marked as a novelty. Its crossing number is proven to be exactly 20: the span of its Jones polynomial equals the 20 crossings of our diagram (Kauffman–Murasugi–Thistlethwaite). Prime knots are enumerated through c = 20, but the c = 20 data are not public, so a knot in that range may be unmatched only because it cannot be looked up. It is marked as a novelty here only once a crossing number of at least 21 is proven and, for an alternating knot, at least 25 (the alternating tables reach c = 24).

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