Saturday 25 June 2011

The I Ching in 8 Bytes: 00000010010001010100001101001100101101100011101011 10011110111111


I really like the idea of this circular sequence as the whole of the I Ching, a 64 bit number which I stumbled upon tonight while looking for visual mappings of the hexagrams to binary numbers.
http://www.onlineclarity.co.uk/friends/showthread.php?t=5212
So from left ro right, 000000 is the hexagram kūn, Earth, the receptive:
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image from http://proporzionedivina.blogspot.com/2009/06/i-ching-as-binary-system.html


00000010010001010100001101001100101101100011101011 10011110111111
6*64 = 384 lines to represent the entire realm of change...

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