Which data loss risk emerged when knotted Inca quipu cords decayed?

💡 Explanation

Incorrect quipu decay led to inaccurate agricultural records because Numerical Encoding was used to store accounting data. This caused societal resource management issues. This outcome directly affects agriculture, rather than other fields such as religious traditions, troop deployment figures, or weather interpretation from observations.

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