Modern Art The Knot: Legends arose that the man who undid the Gordian knot would be ruler of all Asia. Alexander the Great, on his invasion of Asia, was shown the knot and found the key to untying it. According to another account, he cut the knot with his sword. "Cutting the Gordian knot" has thus come to stand for a bold solution to a complicated problem.
GORDIAN KNOT, gord'e-an, in Greek legend, an intricate knot tied by Gordius, King of Phrygia (in Asia Minor), symbolizing a seemingly insoluble problem. According to legend, Gordius was a peasant whom the Phrygians named king in response to a prophecy that their troubles would cease if they chose for this office the first man to approach the Temple of Zeus in a wagon. Gordius dedicated his wagon to the god, fastening it to a pole with a knot so modern art the knotful that it defied untying.
Where nautical miles are used, the unit is the knot (kn or kt)-one nautical mile per hour (note that "per hour" is included in "knot" and is not stated with it). Speeds are normally stated in whole numbers and tenths; calculated results with additional decimal places are rounded up or down.
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