Which outcome arises when relying on a damaged quipu?

💡 Explanation

Inca economic planning depended primarily upon stored quipu data; damaged cords create data loss via degraded encoding, because decimal place values become unreadable; therefore planning suffers, rather than textiles optimizing or census simplifying which required more complete records.

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