Continuing the theme, I suppose I could write a module to convert binary to/from I Ching hexagrams http://unicode.org/charts/PDF/U4DC0.pdf …
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Note that it's not immediately clear which of broken and unbroken is 0 and which is 1, or which is the most significant bit
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One possible ordering would be ䷁䷗䷆䷒䷎䷣䷭䷊ ䷏䷲䷧䷵䷽䷶䷟䷡ ䷇䷂䷜䷻䷦䷾䷯䷄ ䷬䷐䷮䷹䷞䷰䷛䷪ ䷖䷚䷃䷨䷳䷕䷑䷙ ䷢䷔䷿䷥䷷䷝䷱䷍ ䷓䷩䷺䷼䷴䷤䷸䷈ ䷋䷘䷅䷉䷠䷌䷫䷀
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At this point it becomes very obvious that I'm just reinventing Base64 with higher code points, which also means I need a 65th character.
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Wikipedia displays this image https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:I_Ching_hexagrams_00-77.svg … but provides no particular rationale for the yin/yang symbol...
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Hah! The Code2000 font renders U+4DF4 HEXAGRAM FOR DEVELOPMENT and U+4DF5 HEXAGRAM FOR THE MARRYING MAIDEN upside-down (or swaps them)
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Compare U+4DF4 and U+4DF5 here http://unicode.org/charts/PDF/U4DC0.pdf … and here http://i.fonts2u.com/co/mp101_code2000_1.png …
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It also looks as if the Code2000 font is unmaintained https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Code2000 , so minimal chance of getting this fixed in future versions
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npm install hexagram-encode https://github.com/ferno/hexagram-encode …
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