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A cord hanging off a cord.
Also known as: Subsidiary cord
The Andean knot record's secondary cord, attached to a pendant to qualify or subdivide its number.
Qualifies or subdivides the number on the cord it hangs from.
Contexts: Mathematics, History
Produces a tree rather than a table, and subsidiaries can carry subsidiaries of their own — so the quipu records nested structure, which is a genuinely advanced data model for a system with no writing.
Contexts: Mathematics, History
A thinner line tied onto a pendant cord partway down its length, hanging clear of it and itself knotted, sometimes carrying further lines of its own.