The Incas had a system of accounting that relied on the quipu. Cords of various colours were attached to a main cord with knots. The number and position of knots as well as the colour of each cord ...

A preprint is available on the arXiv server. Quipu was named after the knotted cords used as recording devices by the Inca Empire and other South American cultures. It resembles those cords ...

The newfound structure is dubbed Quipu after an Incan system of counting and storing numbers using knots on cords. Like a Quipu cord, the structure is complex, made up of one long filament and ...

Quipu is estimated to span an astonishing ... which is near the former home of the Inca Empire. The astronomer’s discovery is believed to be the largest known superstructure in the cosmos ...

Quipu is estimated to span an astonishing ... which is near the former home of the Inca Empire. By detecting radiation emitted by the galaxy clusters, scientists were able to confirm the presence ...

While much of the world used stone tablets or other media that didn’t survive the centuries, the Incas used something called quipu which encoded numeric data in strings using knots. Now the ...

"Land of the Four Quarters" or Tahuantinsuyu is the name the Inca gave to their empire. It stretched north to south some 2,500 miles along the high mountainous Andean range from Colombia to Chile ...

Quipu, Hercules, Serpens–Corona Borealis and Sculptor–Pegasus are all larger than the fifth and final superstructure highlighted in the study, the Shapley supercluster, which had previously held the ...