Signs of the Inka Khipu: Binary Coding in the Andean Knotted-String RecordsUniversity of Texas Press, 2003 - 202 էջ 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 record-keepers encoded a tremendous variety and quantity of data using only knotted and dyed strings. Yet the comparison between computers and khipu may hold an important clue to deciphering the Inka records. In this book, Gary Urton sets forth a theory that the manipulation of fibres in the construction of khipu created physical features that constitute binary-coded sequences which store units of information in a system of binary recordkeeping that was used throughout the Inka empire. |
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Theory and Methods in the Study of Khipu Binary | 37 |
The Physical Components of Khipu Binary Coding | 60 |
The Linguistic Components of Khipu Binary Coding | 89 |
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