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2. Code of the Quipu - Wikipedia

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   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 by mathematician Marcia Ascher and anthropologist Robert Ascher, and published as Code of the Quipu: A Study in Media, Mathematics, and Culture by the University of Michigan Press in 1981.

3. Marcia Ascher - Wikipedia

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   With her husband, Ascher co-authored the book Code of the Quipu: A Study in Media, Mathematics, and Culture (University of Michigan Press, 1981); it was republished in 1997 by Dover Books as Mathematics of the Incas: Code of the Quipu. [6]

4. Third Council of Lima - Wikipedia

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   The Council adopted a strongly anti-idolatrous tone, [1] targeting obscene books in bishops' possessions for destruction. [ 2 ] [ a ] The Council also ordered the complete destruction of quipu concerning non-Christian customs, [ b ] [ 4 ] [ 5 ] while encouraging their manufacture for confessions [ 6 ] [ c ] and doctrinal memorization among the ...

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6. Economy of the Inca Empire - Wikipedia

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   A well-kept example of quipu from the Inca Empire on display at the Larco Museum. Despite the lack of a written language, the Incas invented a system of record-keeping simple and stereotyped information based on knotted string known as quipu. [22] To describe the decimal system, these knot structures used complex knot arrangements and color ...

7. Microsoft Word - Document3 - HuffPost

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8. Andean civilizations - Wikipedia

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   [8] Andean civilization lacked several characteristics distinguishing it from the pristine civilizations in the Old World and from the Mesoamerican cultures. First, and perhaps most important, Andean civilizations did not have a written language. Instead, their societies used the quipu, a system of knotted and colored strings, to convey ...

9. Mathematics of the Incas - Wikipedia

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   Quipukamayuq with his quipu and a yupana, the main instruments used by the Incas in mathematics.. The mathematics of the Incas (or of the Tawantinsuyu) was the set of numerical and geometric knowledge and instruments developed and used in the nation of the Incas before the arrival of the Spaniards.