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Summary
| Description | 4-loop Brunnian link — no two loops are directly linked, but all four are collectively linked, and cutting any loop frees all the other loops. | |||
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Redrawn version of illustration in Hermann Brunn's 1892 article "Über Verkettung", by way of Dale Rolfsen's 1976 book Knots and Links (p. 67). Current file version generated by means of the following PostScript code: %!
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