This chapter introduces the Inca, the devices used for calculating and recording numbers known as the quipu and yupana, the Chronicle written in 1615 by Guamán Poma that contains a drawing of a checkerboard yupana that is the key to the ancient Inca method of calculation.

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Introduction

  • Cinzia Florio

摘要

This chapter introduces the Inca, the devices used for calculating and recording numbers known as the quipu and yupana, the Chronicle written in 1615 by Guamán Poma that contains a drawing of a checkerboard yupana that is the key to the ancient Inca method of calculation.