Signs of the Inka Khipu: Binary Coding in the Andean Knotted-String Records by Gary Urton

Signs of the Inka Khipu: Binary Coding in the Andean Knotted-String Records

Gary Urton

208 pages • first pub 2003 (editions)

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In an age when computers process immense amounts of information by the manipulation of sequences of 1s and 0s, it remains a frustrating mystery how prehistoric Inka recordkeepers encoded a tremendous variety and quantity of data using only knotted...

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