Probabilistic studies of I Ching with use of APL

  • Authors:

  • Pavel Luksha

  • Affiliations:

  • P.O. Box 157, Obninsk-1, 249020 Russia

  • Venue:
  • APL '94 Proceedings of the international conference on APL : the language and its applications: the language and its applications
  • Year:
  • 1994

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Abstract

I Ching, the ancient Chinese mantic book, is one of the main documents of Chinese culture. It consists of sixty-four 6-line pictographs, also called hexagrams, and commentary texts applied to them. In the presented work, the author examines mathematical problems connected with I Ching. The statement of problems and their solution is original. Two classes of problems are discussed: the comparison of the probability of different mantic schemes and the search for a law determining the order of the sequence of the I Ching hexagrams. The solution of the first problem and the successful explanation of the second problem are presented. APL functions written on APL*PLUS/7 are given in Appendix 3.