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A116586 The symbol numbers of the IChing in rectangular/ square array taken as an antidiagonal. 0
1, 2, 11, 51, 16, 34, 52, 27, 23, 26, 30, 56, 21, 35, 14, 29, 63, 39, 3, 8, 5, 59, 47, 49, 31, 17, 47, 43, 57, 61, 59, 37, 53, 42, 20, 9 (list; graph; refs; listen; history; text; internal format)
OFFSET
0,2
COMMENTS
Traditional Chinese question answering symbols usually taken in a random order of drawing. The IChing is a Pascal Polynomial base: (x+1)^6 1,6,15,20,6,1 Two symbols taken six at a time to 64 total symbols. It is part of the famous "Eight Fold Way" in Chinese mysticism. The draw is eight at random and use the symbols they "mean" to interpret a "question". It sort of like a "yes" or "no" using a coin toss only with a book to interpret the results. Questions have to be formulated in a specific format. Think of each IChing symbol as the result of six coin tosses. So taking 8 symbols is like 48 =8*6 coin tosses in a row.
REFERENCES
John Blofeld, The Book of Change, Dutton, New York,1968, Page 222
http://www.uponreflection.co.uk/iching/iching_symbols/iching_symbols.htm
LINKS
FORMULA
a(n) = IChing symbol numbers taken as an antidiagonal sequence
CROSSREFS
Sequence in context: A357548 A137960 A018933 * A119366 A034574 A054665
KEYWORD
nonn,uned,obsc
AUTHOR
Roger L. Bagula, Mar 26 2006
STATUS
approved

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