Perhaps many of you are familiar with this research, but I only today discovered it and found the results informative. Of interest in this study was whether specific, common knots reduce the breaking strength of different types of ropes--some of which may be found on hammocks. Results show that knots do in fact reduce the strength of rope and often by a large percentage.
http://www.caves.org/section/vertica.../knotrope.html
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