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0 pointszeroonetwothree4mo ago0 comments

He didn’t actually base it on the Yiching, he just noticed that it could be expressed neatly in binary. But he had come up with binary code before that.

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dr_dshiv4mo ago

Thanks for pointing me to that. Here is some source material.

https://www.historyofinformation.com/detail.php?id=395

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0 pointszeroonetwothree4mo ago0 comments

He didn’t actually base it on the Yiching, he just noticed that it could be expressed neatly in binary. But he had come up with binary code before that.

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dr_dshiv4mo ago

Thanks for pointing me to that. Here is some source material.

https://www.historyofinformation.com/detail.php?id=395

j / k navigate · click thread line to collapse