Also if a picture of a knot has only one bridge then the knot must be an unknot. The last picture has two bridges and is a picture of the trefoil. The trefoil is knotted, so it has no picture with only one bridge. The bridge number of the trefoil is exactly 2. Try redrawing it to see how few bridges are needed.
Bridge numbers are simple to define, but hard to calculate.
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