Which communication failure occurred when the Inca used quipu to convey maize harvest totals across changing altitude zones?

💡 Explanation

Misinterpretation in decimal places could occur because the quipu decimal system recorded differed based on local conventions at varying altitudes, therefore, regional variations were encoded, rather than units consistently, throughout the Inca empire.

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