11 Apr
2021
11 Apr
'21
2:32 a.m.
On Sat, Mar 27, 2021 at 11:29:49PM -0700, scj(a)yaccman.com wrote:
I probably wrote the first version of Ching. You
could type a question as
an argument and it would hash the question and use it to simulate yarrow
sticks. I used a small book for the "prophecies", and at some point
realized that it was probably some kind of copyright violation so I dropped
it. It's quite possible that others tinkered with it as well, that being
the way the world worked then.
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That's interesting, so there was a trail of authorship, a history we have lost
touch with unless we find the long-lost v6 source or the 32v sources that can
shed light on this more. I am a little surprised that the Legge translation
was not used as a basis for prophecies, it's been public domain AFAIK.
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