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Trefoil to Figure-Eight by Crossing Changes

A knot is a simple closed curve in three-dimensional space. A diagram of a knot is a projection of the knot to the plane together with over/under information at each crossing. A crossing change is the operation of switching one crossing from over to under or from under to over.

Find up to three examples of sequences of knot diagrams that begin with a diagram of the trefoil knot and end with a diagram of the figure-eight knot, where each step is obtained from the previous diagram by a crossing change.

The obvious chains trefoil → unknot → figure-eight and trefoil → trefoil # figure-eight → figure-eight are not allowed.

(3 points will be given for three correct examples, 2 points for two correct examples, and 1 point for one correct example.)

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