Elephant in the Room Solution Considerations

[Jorge_Stolfi]

Regarding that 10:30 or 10:50 confusion ...

I use hour:minute notation to specify approximate directions in circular diagrams.  So "~10:30" could be anywhere between 10 and 11 o'clock, depending on how much precision is needed.

the way I see it, the scribe wanted to make sure ‘o’ falls exactly on that 10:00

I don't think the Scribe wanted to position anything that precisely in those circular diagrams.  Again, he could not even divide  a circle into four equal parts.  He generally started circular texts at ~10:30, but with rather wide variation.  Even on f57v, each ring of text seems to start a little offset from the next one (except for the outermost ring, whose starting point is uncertain). 

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All the best, --stolfi