Summary

Ornamental configuration of four mutually interlinked trefoil knots or triquetras, for a total of 24 crossings. This can be extended as an indefinitely-repeating pattern (see http://katlas.math.toronto.edu/wiki/Image:Trefoils-interlinked-ornamental.png ). Compare File:Three-trefoils-15crossings.svg .

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