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Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz: How the ‘I Ching’ Inspired His Binary System

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While Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz’s work has influenced centuries of technological innovation, his own influences included Chinese philosophy and divination manuals recorded as early as 1000 BC.

On Sunday, Leibniz’s 372nd birthday was honored with a Google Doodle. The 17th-century philosopher and mathematician developed the binary number system that is still being used today, but his approach to writing in binary code made direct references to the hexagrams and cosmological ideas found in the 9th-century manual, the I Ching.

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