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Question: What is Unicursal ?

Answer:

A curve that can be traced out without removing a pencil from the paper, and which ends where it starts, is called unicursal. It must not retrace any part of itself but it can cross over itself. Such curves are always traversable.

It is always possible to colour the regions formed by a unicursal curve using two colours so that no two regions have the same colour if they have the same boundary. In other words, A network which you can travel round completely without using the same path twice.

For instance, in the Konigsburg bridge problem, the network of roads and bridges is not unicursal. If a network is unicursal it has to be traversable.