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I looked all of these up; in doing so, the only quipu I could find is on what I believe to be your own GitHub page. Are quipus (or, to use the Quechua plural, q
by andolanra 16y ago
I looked all of these up; in doing so, the only quipu I could find is on what I believe to be your own GitHub page. Are quipus (or, to use the Quechua plural, quipukuna) something you devised, or are you borrowing the name from elsewhere?
- pjscott 16y agoThat would be my own contribution to the ridiculousness. See, I'm working on operational transformation based on this paper: http://bouillon.math.usu.ru/articles/ctre.pdf http://bouillon.math.usu.ru/articles/ctre.pdf ...and the author names every data type after something stringy. I wanted to continue the theme, but it took some serious Wikipedia digging before I could find something that was textile-related and not already taken. In retrospect, this was a bad choice, since I kept forgetting how to spell it. :-(
- andolanra 16y agoMost varieties of Quechua wouldn't spell it 'quipu' any more; that's the influence of Spanish orthography, where 'qu' meant 'k' and 'hu' meant 'w'. Most modern orthographies would spell it 'khipu', which might be easier to remember. And for your future endeavors: twine, thrum, strand, and lisle are, as far as I know, unused.