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Six Tastes

Downloadable PDF, English
£3.66
Six Tastes
£3.66
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This mosaic sock pattern is named for a problem described in a 2000-year-old Indian text. The author describes the six tastes of the Ayurveda (sweet, pungent, astringent, sour, saline, and bitter) and tallies up the numbers of ways one may incorporate different combinations of these tastes at once. In this way, he outlines one of the earliest known problems in combinatorics, a branch of mathematics dealing with the sizes and quantities of finite sets.

Craft
Knitting
Designer
Hypercycloid
Format
Downloadable PDF
Language
English
Notes
Construction of the heel requires either two extra DPNs or one extra circular needle.
Skill Level
Intermediate