 Meridian of a knot (source code)

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= Meridian of a knot
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= Meridians of a knot
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A meridian is an oriented simple closed curve on the boundary of a <knot exterior> that bounds a disk in the removed tubular neighborhood and has <linking number> one with the knot.

Viewed inside the removed tubular neighborhood, this is a <meridian of a solid torus>.

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