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prettygoodwordquipu - n., an Incan record-keeping device consisting of knotted varicolored strings attached to a base rope.
The encoding being primarily the knots, we think. Wikipedia has more. Pronounced KEE-poo, as if it were Spanish -- which it is, from Quechua khipu or kipu, knot.
---L.
The encoding being primarily the knots, we think. Wikipedia has more. Pronounced KEE-poo, as if it were Spanish -- which it is, from Quechua khipu or kipu, knot.
---L.
