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[[Image:Quipu.png|thumb|250px|Representation of a quipu]]

I '''Quipu''' or(o '''khipu''') wereerano recordingstrumenti devicesdi usedsupporto duringper thela [[Incamemoria Empire]]usati anddagli itsInca predecessore societiesdalle inciviltà theprecedenti nella [[AndesAnde|Andeanregione andina]] region. AUn quipu solitamente consisteva di corde di cotone colorate usually consists of colored [[cotton]] cords with numeric and other values encoded by knots in a [[Decimal|base 10]] positional system. Quipus may have just a few strands, but some have up to 2,000 strands.

(''Quipu'' is the [[Spanish language]] spelling and the most common spelling in [[English language|English]]. ''Khipu'' is the word for "[[knot]]" in the [[Cusco]] [[dialect]] of the [[Quechua language]]; the ''kh'' is an [[aspiration (phonetics)|aspirated]] ''k''. In some other dialects, the term is ''kipu''.)