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  • curprev 01:5401:54, 23 April 2024Gwern talk contribs 56,709 bytes +1,350 →‎Leibniz and the I Ching: hammer it in with an extended quote from Liebniz about how he was ''not' undo
  • curprev 01:5101:51, 23 April 2024Gwern talk contribs 55,359 bytes +135 →‎History: Liebniz was ''not'' inspired by the I Ching. He had already developed binary notation before the Jesuit Bouvet, reading Leibniz's letters, explained to him how the I Ching ''also'' used binary notation; see https://gwern.net/doc/cs/1980-swiderski.pdf#page=8 it was the parallel invention that so impressed them, as it supposedly meant a universal Christian truth; if Leibniz had simply copied it, it wouldn't've, obviously... undo

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  • curprev 01:0501:05, 18 December 202394.32.181.197 talk 55,108 bytes +5 Binary counting: better clarified that generic "...digit ..." was instead a more specific "...binary digit", right before same term is also reconfirmed as "... bit ...". Then to also avoid any possible confusion in following 1st counting example also corrected "... next digit ..." to become more specific "... next bit ...". undo Tag: Visual edit

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