Leibniz discovered in the pattern of the I Ching the principles of binary arithmetic and calculus, the foundation of every computer calculation performed today. There is a great deal more to discover in the I Ching besides its obvious value as an oracle of profound wisdom. Published by HarperSF, 1994. This makes them more useful to us. Here, we investigate numbers and the Trigrams.
Someone is single-minded, another is of two minds.
We are even-tempered or have an odd personality. Seven is magical. Three is harmony. Four is square and so on. By associating numbers to the Trigrams, we enrich both the meaning of numbers and the meaning of the Trigrams.