Which data loss risk increases when interpreting damaged Inca quipu?

💡 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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