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    Quipu (also spelled khipu) are recording devices fashioned from strings historically used by a number of cultures in the region of Andean South America...
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  • 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...
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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...
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    the documentation of the quipu. There are 1,500 strings on the largest quipu. The Sacred City of Caral Supe has the oldest quipu, which dates from about...
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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...
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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...
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    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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    all corners of the empire, finely-woven textiles, use of knotted strings (quipu) for record keeping and communication, agricultural innovations and production...
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    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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    decipherments apparently show that linguistic usage of Quipus followed a logosyllabic pattern. Quipu Olmec Hieroglyphs, c. 900 BC - 500 BC, possibly the...
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