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Come to think of it
There are a bunch of other braid properties I’ve been implicitly assuming. Definitely that a strand can’t be knotted around itself, and maybe also something about how the strands can’t “double back” up toward the person’s scalp. But I’m not sure if the latter means anything.
Anyway, now you know what theoretical* math is like: make up an object and then get excited about what it is or how many of it there are or which of those are similar to each other in what ways or what different object you could get by changing one of its properties. I think math is the study of imaginary things.
*Applied math is mostly the same, but the object you make up is supposed to be approximating something that non-mathematicians care about.
