%0 Journal Article
%T Counting and Arithmetic of the Inca
%A Ximena Catepill¨¢n
%A Waclaw Szymanski
%J Revista Latinoamericana de Etnomatem¨¢tica
%D 2012
%I Universidad de Nari?o
%X The Inca Empire - the greatest pre-Columbian empire on the American continent - extended from Ecuador to central Chile for more than five thousand miles. Its capital was Cuzco established in the high Peruvian Andes. This highly advanced civilization developed a counting system used to run the empire - in particular, to build the 14,000 mile road structure and monumental architecture. Some of the algorithms believed to be used by the Inca to do computations using a yupana, an ancient calculating device, will be presented, as well as classroom activities for the course ¡°Mathematics in Non-European Cultures¡± for non Mathematics and Science majors offered at Millersville University of Pennsylvania.
%K Etnomatem¨¢ticas
%K Inca
%K Yupana
%K Aritm¨¦tica
%U http://etnomatematica.org/v5-n2-agosto2012/Catepillan_Szymanski.pdf