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I thought the Daoists invented binary. I-Ching is a binary system of size 2^6.
by eternalban 3y ago
I thought the Daoists invented binary. I-Ching is a binary system of size 2^6.
- dhosek 3y agoBut the numbering doesn’t really follow the usual positional aspects of binary. You would expect that the hexagram in the second position, given the first hexagram would be either 夬 (43) or 姤 (44) depending on whether you’re big-endian or little-endian. For that matter, the first hexagram should be number 0 for it to be a binary system. Just because you have an 2^n symbols doesn’t automatically make you binary.
- eternalban 3y agoThe numbers assigned to the hexagrams are not part of the actual I-Ching. You're free to consider the 'receptive' as 0 and the 'creative' as 63 if you wish. The sequence is also explicitly known as an 'arrangement'. That said, my comment was somewhat tongue in cheek.