177,000 ways to knot a tie

[nahtnoj]

But only 2 or 3 right ways to do it:

Matrix villain spawns 177,000 ways to knot a tie - physics-math - 07 February 2014 - New Scientist

Just be prepared to see some strange things, is all, as all matter of victims embrace this as misguided creative expression. It should have been called 176,997 ways not to tie a tie.

[teginder81]

Mathematicians have found thousands of new ways to knot a tie... I am glad that is where the research money is going to. Identifying thousands ways of knotting a tie