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Perhaps he is the inventor of this knot in the same way I was the inventor of short division in grade school--I thought I had invented it since no one had taught it to me, but I had just rediscovered an existing technique. Since that was the way my dad learned how to tie his shoes from his father before Ian was born, I think the furthest one could say is Ian is _an_ inventor of this not, not _the_ inventor.

However, this website is really cool, and it does do a much better job of explaining than my frustrated attempts of "you just pull one loop through the other!"

>>arijun+(OP)
I learned this knot in 1986 from my brother, and he knew it for awhile before that, and unlikely through Ian.

I do it slightly differently, and a decent amount faster. I don't pinch and grab after the spin, but rather hook the opposite lace during the spin with the front crease in my index finger.

It takes about 10 minutes to learn, and 20 minutes of practice for the muscle memory to get it right.

>>arijun+(OP)
It's the Ramanujan Effect.

>>anonyt+v8
I tried googling “Ramanujan Effect” but nothing turned up. Could you explain what you meant by that?

>>ak39+xq
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Srinivasa_Ramanujan

"Though he had almost no formal training in pure mathematics, he made substantial contributions to mathematical analysis, number theory, infinite series, and continued fractions, including solutions to mathematical problems considered to be unsolvable. Ramanujan initially developed his own mathematical research in isolation; it was quickly recognized by Indian mathematicians."

>>ak39+xq
I made it up just then. It's where you are so smart but so uninformed that you unknowingly reinvent past results. Sadly, Ramanujan didn't have access to a lot of resources, so he spent a lot of time deriving results that already existed. Fortunately, it's not a complete tragedy because he used novel methods.