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Inca Knot Code Partially Detangled

Posted by timothy on from the quipu-quime-quipu-together-naturally dept.

mulufuf writes "It looks like some progress has been made on translating those old Inca knot strings that have baffled everyone for ages now. From the article:'While the Incan empire left nothing that would be considered writing by today's standards, it did produce knotted strings in various colors and arrangements that have long puzzled historians and anthropologists.'"

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  1. thats pretty impressive code reading by museumpeace · · Score: 2, Funny

    do you think they would like to take a look at some of this old Ada code I inherited?

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    1. Re:thats pretty impressive code reading by Geoffreyerffoeg · · Score: 4, Funny

      I think knot.

  2. Code by xXBondsXx · · Score: 3, Funny

    I thought my code organization was bad... at least i don't take historians and anthropologists to decipher it

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  3. What a Joke by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Funny

    Scientist: "Hey, guys, I think I've got a translation here. Let's see -- 'I'm... a... frayed... knot...' Oh, for pete's sake!"

  4. Apparently by GigsVT · · Score: 4, Funny

    Looks like they decoded just the title of the collection, it's "To Serve Man".

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  5. Programmers, take note by 3waygeek · · Score: 3, Funny

    this is the first documented instance of spaghetti code, predating Basic by several centuries.

  6. It's only a matter of time... by HotNeedleOfInquiry · · Score: 3, Funny

    Before someone writes an RFQ "Data Transmission over Linear Unidimentional Media via Knotted Bits"

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  7. The Inca's last message to mankind... by monsterX · · Score: 2, Funny

    "We apologize for the inconvenience"

    1. Re:The Inca's last message to mankind... by dheltzel · · Score: 2, Funny
      I think it might translate to:

      Goodbye, and thanks for the fish!