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		zeroonetwothree 34 days ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Robert Hooke's "Cyberpunk” Letter to Gottfried Lei... He didn’t actually base it on the Yiching, he just noticed that it could be expressed neatly in binary. But he had come up with binary code before that.

dr_dshiv 34 days ago [–]

Thanks for pointing me to that. Here is some source material.

https://www.historyofinformation.com/detail.php?id=395

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