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the I ching: yin(0) and yang(1); 1000BC https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/I_Ching https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/I_Ching
by justifier 9y ago
the I ching: yin(0) and yang(1); 1000BC
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/I_Ching https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/I_Ching
- theoh 9y agoYes, but I think we're talking specifically about positional numbers using binary digits.
- justifier 9y agoThe I ching works like a binary look up table You divine a series of yins and yangs, usually 3 or 6.. trigrams and hexgrams (o).. then look up that sequence in the text to discover it's meaning 010010 references one, whereas 000100 references another I guess you could argue it's more Shannon than leibniz (o) https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/I_Ching#Hexagrams https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/I_Ching#Hexagrams
- theoh 9y agoYeah, but do you ever perform an operation on two hexagrams (addition, multiplication)? If not, each hexagram is just a bitstring, not a number in binary notation. If not used as numbers they don't count as numbers. Words written with the standard English alphabet are not base-26 numbers until someone decides to interpret them as such. Dictionaries are lookup tables but the ordering is lexical not numerical. Maybe we are in agreement.
- Nomentatus 9y agoIf I remember a lecture from decades ago rightly, Liebnitz encountered and became interested in the I Ching, beginning his interested in binary numbers.