Which inaccuracy emerged when Spanish administrators used quipu records for tax assessments?

💡 Explanation

Misinterpretation of knot hierarchies caused inaccuracy in Spanish tax assessments, because scribes lacked implicit cultural understanding of encoding metadata via positional significance; therefore, values were incorrectly assigned, rather than purely numerical record errors or data losses.

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