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Quipu (/ˈkiːpuː/ KEE-poo), also
spelled khipu, are
recording devices fashioned from
knotted cords. They were
historically used by
various cultures in...
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Quipu is a
megastructure in cosmology,
extending 1.4
billion light years. It is the
largest known structure in the
observable universe in
terms of its...
- had a full X.500 and LDAP
directory called QUIPU (incorrectly
pronounced kwip-ooo by the project).
Quipu implemented a DSA and a
Directory User Agent...
- all
corners of the empire, finely-woven textiles, use of
knotted strings (
quipu or khipu) for
record keeping and communication,
agricultural innovations...
- can be
mainly characterized by its
usefulness in the
economic field. The
quipus and
yupanas are
proof of the
importance of
arithmetic in Inca
state administration...
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unifying theme across her
diverse body of work,
among which her
fibre art
quipus,
knotted or
unknotted strings,
palabrarmas and precarios, made from natural...
- forebears.
Since the
Incas did not have a
written language, but
instead had
Quipus to record, it is
difficult to
determine the type of
educational system the...
- Code of the
Quipu is a book on the Inca
system of
recording numbers and
other information by
means of a
quipu, a
system of
knotted strings. It was written...
- Instead,
their societies used the
quipu, a
system of
knotted and
colored strings, to
convey information. Few
quipus survive and they have
never been fully...
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textile piece that the
excavators have
labelled a
quipu. They
write that the
artifact is
evidence that the
quipu record keeping system, a
method involving knots...
