There are 177,147 ways to tie a tie, according to mathematicians.

There are 177,147 ways to tie a tie, according to mathematicians.

A small team of mathematicians, led by Mikael Vejdemo-Johansson of the of the KTH Royal Institute of Technology in Stockholm, has uploaded a paper to the preprint server arXiv describing a mathematical process they used to determine that the number of ways to tie a tie is 177,147—far more than previous research has suggested.

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