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Description Various decorative depictions of the "L10a174" link of mathematical knot theory (i.e. a closed 5-link chain), including interlinked circles and pentagons, and interlaced "yin-yang" type shapes...
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Self-made graphic, converted from a version of the following vector PostScript source code:

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