MATHEMATICAL REVELATIONS of ANCIENT CRYPTIC DIAGRAMS
WATCH for details about this exciting work: "THE MATHEMATICAL REVELATIONS of ANCIENT CRYPTIC DIAGRAMS," a continuation of startling scientific interpretations of mysterious diagrams from the past, such as this "code" shown at ""The Pythagorean Theorem is Possibly 4000 Years Old" |
PAPYRUS
The number system consisting of just two values, 0 and 1, is the smallest, complete arithmetic number system. It is the number system on which the theory of the electronic, digital computer is based. And the genesis of "binary expansions" or "binary numbers," where a number is expressed as a string of 0's and 1's or alternately as a sum of powers of 2 is apparently very ancient.Fu Hsi (originator of the I Ching and Ethiopian, by race) represented 8 numerical values by "trigrams" composed of broken or solid lines (equivalent to all strings of length 3 of 0's and 1's). |
PAPYRUS cont.
In ancient Yoruba, a tortoise shell would be used to represent the value 1 or 0, depending on whether it was turned face up or face down. A necklace of 8 tortoise shell could represent as many as 16 numerical values or all strings of length 8 of 0's and 1's. The Yoruba developed a divination system, called Ifa, similar to the divination system of the I Ching. The necklaces of eight tortoise shells were said to represent 16 "Odu", similar to the 8 "trigrams" of Fu Hsi.Another ancient African tribe, for whom the binary principle was significant, was the Dogon of the Niger River region in Sudan. To stress the importance of the principle of polarity, the birth of twins was a noteworthy event and central to the the Dogon cosmology and so was the number, 8. The number 8 was, in fact, omnipresent in Dogon life and belief. The Dogon believed that, "in the beginning," the architect of the world order, the "Nummo" spirit, laid out eight covenant-stones, in an arrangement which dually indicated the outline of a human soul and also the order of human society. Could this have been the "Pre-Heaven" diagram of the I Ching, with trigrams characterized by gender, as defined by Fu Hsi?
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THE FIRST NUMBER THEORISTS
And thousands of years before the birth of Christ, the ancient Egyptians, indirectly, broke numbers down into strings of 0's and 1's when they multiplied two numbers by applying the methods of "mediatio: and "duplatio." This procedure consisted of doubling one factor and halving the other (to within an integral value) |
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