FIGURE 2.
Probability of remaining in the same knot type upon one random segment-segment passage decreases exponentially with the L/D of corresponding ideal knots. (L/D values of ideal knots are taken from Katritch et al., 1996). The data points included knots 72 and 81 as we wanted to extend the range of analyzed knots to higher L/D values. The probability values of remaining in the same knot type plotted in this figure are slightly different from those listed in the Table 1 as we did not limit our statistics here to the passages that do not create knots with more than six crossings.