2600 BC – Inca Quipus

Quipus were complex assemblies of knotted ropes that were used in South America as a data storage device and played an important role in the Inca administration. Only a handful of specialists could use and decipher them. Their meaning mostly remains a mystery but it seems that color, relative position of knots, knot types and rope length were used to encode categorical and quantitative […]

Added by Pierre Dragicevic. Category: Passive physical visualization. Tags: anthropology, incas, knots, peru, quipus

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2010 – Quipu of the Periodic Table

As a result of bringing together each pair of periods in a single function or binod, the author has found a new regular on the subject, which has been defined as a new quantum number, since the number of orders or regulations binod growth elements in the table, under the appearance of pairs of new types of quantum structures or periods whose organization responds […]

Added by Fanny Chevalier. Category: Passive physical visualization. Tags: chemistry, periodic table, quipus

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