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Past exam of the mathematics course of the University of Cambridge 2018 iii Paper 141 1 d Solution by
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Surgery diagrams and continued-fraction coefficients
. Details. The slam-dunk move eliminates a meridional component with coefficient and replaces the other coefficient by . Eliminating the component with coefficient three givesThus this Dehn surgery on a framed link becomes Dehn filling on the unknot, with the required orientation. As a check, its surgery linking matrix iswhose determinant is five.
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