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Quipus and Yupanas as Imperial Registers
, 2018 The Incas used the quipu, a knotted cord device, for administrative and historical record-keeping. This chapter summarizes the modern scholarship on the quipu, which uses colonial documents and analyses of the construction and numerical composition of surviving quipus.
Gary Urton
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The Logical-Numerical System of Inca Quipus
IEEE Annals of the History of Computing, 1983Summary: Quipus, used by the Incas during the sixteenth century, were sophisticated devices for recording and transmitting codified information. They are a part of the global history of data handling and computation. This paper describes the logical-numerical system expressed through these multicolored spatial arrays of knotted cords.
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Los Quipus Funerarios y Tributarios de Cuspón Y Chiquián: Hoy y Ayer
ArqueologÍa Y Sociedad, 2017 La práctica de enterrar a los difuntos con cuerdas anudadas, o quipus, es una que se ha observado en el Perú desde tiempos remotos hasta el presente pero poco se sabe sobre esta tradición.
Filomeno Zubieta Núñez
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Los quipus funerarios de Cuspón como patrimonio cultural de la nación
Investigaciones Sociales, 2018 On April 27, 2017, the Ministry of Culture declared the ritual use of the quipus in the burial of the deceased in the village of Cuspón, province of Bolognesi (Ancash), as Cultural Heritage of the Nation.
Filomeno Zubieta Núñez
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, 2013 Páginas 349-377La presencia y el uso de los quipus durante la Colonia parecen ser realidades cada vez más conocidas y estudiadas. Los quipus no desaparecieron inmediatamente con la caída del Imperio incaico.
Castro de Trelles, Lucila
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Contar concertando : quipus, piedritas y escritura en los Andes coloniales
, 2013 Páginas 193-243Una tarde de fines de 1581, los caciques y quipucamayos de Lucanas-Laramati, uno de los repartimientos de la provincia de Lucanas, desenvolvieron sus quipus y se aprestaron a «leérselos» al corregidor. Aquella jornada, una serie de cuentas
Curatola, Marco
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Synthese, 2002
Quipus are a most intriguing element of the Inca civilization. The original use of these structured knotted cotton or wool cords are yet object of discussion. It seems they were registry systems, with quantitative and qualitative information, used for bureaucratic-administrative purposes.
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Quipus are a most intriguing element of the Inca civilization. The original use of these structured knotted cotton or wool cords are yet object of discussion. It seems they were registry systems, with quantitative and qualitative information, used for bureaucratic-administrative purposes.
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ACM Transactions on Reconfigurable Technology and Systems, 2013
There has been a steady increase in the utilization of heterogeneous architectures to tackle the growing need for computing performance and low-power systems. The execution of computation-intensive functions on specialized hardware enables to achieve substantial speedups and power savings.
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There has been a steady increase in the utilization of heterogeneous architectures to tackle the growing need for computing performance and low-power systems. The execution of computation-intensive functions on specialized hardware enables to achieve substantial speedups and power savings.
Roel Meeuws +5 more
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The Accounting Review, 1964
Abstract The article focuses on "quipu," a record-keeping device used by the Inca Indians, one of the more interesting old civilizations in the Western Hemisphere. Incas provide one with another fascinating story of the development of accounting.
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Abstract The article focuses on "quipu," a record-keeping device used by the Inca Indians, one of the more interesting old civilizations in the Western Hemisphere. Incas provide one with another fascinating story of the development of accounting.
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