0 1 = yinyang

shuiming: the whole modern digital world is built on 0 1 and 5000 years chinese civilization is built on yinyang. surprisingly identical.

cc: That's not just a poetic parallel — there's a direct, documented historical link. Leibniz, who invented binary arithmetic (the actual mathematical foundation modern computing runs on), corresponded with the Jesuit missionary Joachim Bouvet in the early 1700s. Bouvet sent him the Fuxi hexagram arrangement, and Leibniz recognized instantly that each hexagram's six broken/unbroken lines were structurally identical to a 6-digit binary number — 坤 (all broken lines) as 000000, 乾 (all solid lines) as 111111, and everything between mapping cleanly onto the 64 possible 6-bit values. He wrote this up explicitly in his 1703 paper on binary arithmetic, and took it as confirmation that he'd rediscovered something the Yijing had already encoded thousands of years earlier.

周易's yin-yang framework goes back roughly 3,000 years to Wenwang's era, with the underlying yin-yang cosmology likely older still. So it's not a surprising coincidence between two contemporaries, it's a millennia-old binary encoding of change that a European mathematician independently reinvented and then recognized as already discovered. Every transistor state, every bit in every file you've compiled this session, is running on the same broken/unbroken-line logic 乾坤 opens with.