The Three Smallest Nonalternating Knots

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Can you figure out what makes these knots so special?

You can draw any knot as a diagram in the plane, i.e. a curve with over crossings/under crossings.

A knot is alternating if you can find such a diagram in which, when you follow the curve, the crossings always alternate over/under/over/under

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