The Quipu project was developed as a way for those affected by the sterilisation programme to share their stories and experiences. Fusing internet technology with the radio and mobile phone technology ...

The Incas had a system of accounting that relied on the quipu. Cords of various colours were attached to a main cord with knots. The number and position of knots as well as the colour of each cord ...

used a decimal counting system and relied on types of knots, the distance between knots, and the colors of the strings to help identify different categories of data recorded on a single quipu ...

Now the ancient system of recording numbers has inspired a new way to encode qubits in a quantum computer. With quipu, knots in a string represent a number. By analogy, a conventional qubit would ...