Printed Chinese diagram of the 64 hexagrams arranged in a ring around an eight-by-eight square, with numerals added in ink
The 64 hexagrams in a circle and a square, in the arrangement credited to Shao Yong (1011–1077). Joachim Bouvet sent this printed diagram from China to Leibniz, who added the Arabic numerals; he read the sequence as the numbers 0 to 63 in binary.Unknown printer; numerals by Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz, about 1701 · Public domain · Wikimedia Commons

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