[JohnnyZ]

I was struck by the use of the word "modest" it sounds a bit like academic jealously.

I think GU's working on the assumption that although the Italian dude's system could work, it probably wasn't the way the Inca did things. I don't know the full grounds for why he came to that assumption, but I guess it's primarily grounded in the Base10 vs Base40 debate, which he seems very confident about.

[NotQuiteCricket]

Well, since there are all sorts of ways that you can get at =4, that this guy found one way to use these stones doing base 40 doesn't mean that it is the original way.

I'd say that the person who wrote the article gave a slant that made the professor sound like an ass - if he is an ass or not in real life is a different issue.

Sometimes people with degrees make me see red, maybe I've got an inferiority complex that needs therapy.