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TIL one of the oldest forms of binary numbers and encoding were found in the Chinese work I Ching from the 9th century BC. 0 represented Yin and 1 represented Yang, and combinations of the two would be used to categorize all things, intended to allow diviners to use random numbers to tell the future

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