I read the page and went through the "verify the cycles for yourself" sequence and I still have no earthly idea when defining the cycles, what is the rule that says "if you're currently on hexagram X, you can calculate the next hexagram Y by doing..."
by casey2
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Random shuffles usually have a big loop
by gezhengwen
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I found this by accident while analyzing the I Ching with code. 81% of hexagrams are locked in one chain, none stays in its original
position. You can verify it yourself in the browser. Has anyone seen this before?
Does cycle here mean the same thing as what Carmack used in Wolf3D to randomly fill the screen with red pixels without any of them repeating?
by kazishariar
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How/Can you compare this to Magic Squares?
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by chordbug
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We truly live in an age where facts that are worth "maybe one sentence of space on Wikipedia" can be expanded into full-blown AI-coded interactive websites. I'm not sure how to feel about this. I think in this case it ascribes an inappropriate sense of grandeur: making a mathematical curiosity (and is the result even that surprising?) seem like some deep truth has been unveiled, or we finally found God's Number.
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