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dr_dshivyesterday at 5:33 PM2 repliesview on HN

Leibniz invented binary — so he kind of succeeded in his quest.

He based it on the Chinese iching, interestingly enough…


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zeroonetwothreeyesterday at 10:10 PM

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.

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SilasXyesterday at 6:10 PM

He was ahead of his time, definitely, and binary logic is one critical step in getting there, but we're a long way from having a formal language to represent all claims that would ever arise in human argumentation to the point that it's simply a matter of calculation to resolve them.

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