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← HistoryWhich data loss risk increases when interpreting damaged Inca quipu?
A)Re-knotting creating phantom records
B)Cord decay erasing digit positions✓
C)Color fading altering status flags
D)Spin direction changing subgroup assignment
💡 Explanation
Loss of specific digit positions increases by cord decay, a direct loss of data caused by enzymatic degradation; this loss uses an erasure error mechanism. Therefore, the integrity of numbers is impaired rather than a simple shift in flags, because positional encoding fails directly.
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