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He made graphs and compared the knots on the khipu to an old Spanish census document from the region when something clicked.
"Something looked out of the ordinary in that moment," Medrano said. "It seemed there was a coincidence that was too strong to be random."
He realized that, like a kind of textile abacus, the number of unique colors on the strings nearly matched with the number of first names on the Spanish census.
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(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday January 19 2018, @08:31PM (1 child)
Well, for starters, the names on the Spanish census weren't Spanish names, but Incan names. Ie. the Spanish took a census of the Incas.
(Score: 2) by wonkey_monkey on Saturday January 20 2018, @01:05AM
Ohhh, okay, that makes slightly more sense of it. Not much, but slightly more.
Still seems extremely tenuous.
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