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Signs of the Inka Khipu: Binary Coding in the Andean Knotted-String Records
Gary Urton, 2003. University of Texas Press, Austin.
Proposes that each khipu cord encodes a sequence of binary choices in its construction (fibre, spin, ply, attachment, knot direction) and that these made up a structured code.
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Source for the binary-coding model.
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Urton, G. (2003). Signs of the Inka Khipu: Binary Coding in the Andean Knotted-String Records. University of Texas Press, Austin. https://utpress.utexas.edu/9780292785403/
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Urton, Gary. “Signs of the Inka Khipu: Binary Coding in the Andean Knotted-String Records.” University of Texas Press, Austin (2003).