[jyl]

Oh, here's a related question. Suppose you have to tie something with a rope that isn't strong enough for the load. But you have a lot of rope, so you can run multiple ropes in parallel. Would you bundle four ropes together and tie the knot as if using a single rope, or would you tie a separate knot with each rope?

I got interested in this yesterday because I was hanging a hammock at camp but we only had paracord. I didn't trust the paracord to hold the load, so I used four lengths in parallel.