Eighty-five, according to research carried out in 1999 by Dr. Thomas Fink and Dr. Yong Mao of Cambridge University. The two physicists applied "Knot Theory", normally used in physics and the study of DNA, to calculate the figure. They applied a limit of nine moves(the most that can be practically made with a standard tie) of the wider end of the garment to theright,left or center and away or towards the shirt. However, only 13 possibilities were considered aesthetically acceptable, of which four - Saxon or Pratt knot, Windsor, Half-Windsor and Four- in- Hand - are widely used already. Dr. Fink admits that all 13 are simply fatter or thinner versions of the same V-shaped knot.
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